Re: encrypted swap

Florian Weimer (Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE)
07 Aug 2001 17:11:49 +0200


David Maynor <david.maynor@oit.gatech.edu> writes:

> But is the 10% perf hit really gaining you anything, expect to quell
> your paranoia. What is next, an encrypted /proc so that possible
> attackers can't gain information about running processes?

This is not about paranoia, this is about stolen notebooks.

(And you can't easily add hundreds of megabytes to such systems
usually.)

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