On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:08:22PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: > >>>>> "Rolf" == Rolf Kutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Rolf> * Quoting Joshua SS Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> Cryptoswap? Hmm sound like something I was thinking about earlier > >> today. Do you have a good resource for this? > > Rolf> http://www.kerneli.org/index.php > > Do the kerneli modules (officially) work with encrypted swap? I know > loop-AES does, but I couldn't find anything about the kerneli > (cryptoapi/cryptoloop) modules. (For loop-AES, do a Google search for > it.) > > When encrypting swap, you need to make sure that you don't allocate new > memory. Otherwise, it may cause some swapping, which makes you do > encryption, which may allocate new memory, ad infinitum. loop-AES takes > care of that explicitly, by preallocating memory, but I don't think > cryptoapi/cryptoloop does, so you may be taking your chances with it.
Yes they do. I don't know if it's in the current release, but I wrote a sample rc script and notes on it which should be included in the package. I never build a machine without it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
