Bug 824676

Summary:	Include Tresor in RHEL kernel
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Benjamin Kingston <ACiDGRiM>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Herbert Xu <herbert.xu>
kernel sub component:	File Systems	QA Contact:	Kernel General QE <kernel-general-qe>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	Docs Contact:
Severity:	unspecified
Priority:	unspecified	CC:	ACiDGRiM, lwang, wgomerin
Version:	6.4
Target Milestone:	rc
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Last Closed:	2015-10-15 06:18:00 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1270638

Description Benjamin Kingston 2012-05-24 00:26:23 UTC

Description of problem:
Request to include Tresor in the RHEL kernel builds to increase security against cold boot attacks against LUKS encrypted volumes. Including this in the kernel can enhance security as a new kernel build won't be required for new security updates.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
current

How reproducible:
NOTABUG

Additional info:

http://www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/tresor

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2012-05-27 02:53:38 UTC

This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 4 Herbert Xu 2015-10-15 06:18:00 UTC

This needs to be submitted upstream first.

Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-09-14 01:29:19 UTC

The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 1000 days