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Normally I don't shutdown my notebook any more in favour of using suspend-to-RAM. The downside is that my encrypted home partition is completely accessible after resume without entering the passphrase. A bad idea if someome steals your notebook...

Looking at cryptsetup's manpage. I've learned that LUKS now supports the luksSuspend and luksResume command. Has luksSuspend and luksResume been integrated in the scripts doing suspend-to-RAM and resume?

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Related LP bug. Locking the screen is an easy method to protect against the "regular" people. It does not protect you from people who know your password (or can guess it), abuse a bug to gain access to a session or read the passwords from memory – Lekensteyn Mar 24 '12 at 21:39

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Actually, you just need to ensure that your screensaver passphrase is required on resume from suspend, and you'll be safe.

This will ensure that someone resuming your laptop from suspend will have to enter a password before they can get into the computer.

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and this really uses luksSuspend / luksResume ? – Stefan Armbruster Feb 19 '12 at 20:33
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No, it ensures that someone resuming your laptop is required to enter a password on resume. That's essential if you've gone to the length of encrypted your data. – Dustin Kirkland Feb 19 '12 at 21:57

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