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Comment by IngoBlechschmid

Yes, if you simply suspend your laptop on most stock Linux distributions, then everything including the master key is still kept in memory. But Debian pioneered the (optional) cryptsetup-suspend addon. This issues a luksSuspend command which is supposed to wipe the key from memory, and on resume asks you to resupply your passphrase.

Up to kernel 6.8, this worked as described; starting with kernel 6.9, it silently didn't.

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