[Gllug] Encription advice appreciated.

[Timothy Coggins]

On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 14:53, David Damerell wrote:

> >>Unless you run without swap, the spooks can probably recover some
> >>data from your swap partition.
> >There are patches to support encrypted swap available.
> 
> Come to think of it, there's little to prevent one just using a
> partition encrypted through the loopback interface as one would for a
> filesystem.

An easier way would be to use a swap file rather than a partition and
either have that file encrypted or use secure rm to wipe it before
shutdown.

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