Re: encrypted swap

David Spreen (david@spreen.de)
Tue, 7 Aug 2001 23:40:39 +0200

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:23:15PM +0300, Dan Podeanu wrote:
> There, you have the swap encrypted, up and running. Of course, if you need
> more fancy encryption than the default, XOR or DES, get the crypto patch.
> You only need to have a script that does the stuff, that runs when the
> system boots, without shutdown scripts (in case of power/battery failure

Okay, even if I get the password from /dev/urandom this sounds like a
solution for people who don't use much swapspace. Because I
have to recreate the swapfs everytime I am booting.

so long...

David

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