On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 02:16:45AM -0800, Lucky Green wrote: > Miguel wrote: > > Having no swap will prevent you from getting crashdumps in > > case of panic which, if you run 5.0, is not that unusual. > > Besides these days harddrives cost $1/GB, so why not setup > > the swap partition anyway? > > I don't want cleartext cryptographic keys to ever touch magnetic media, > thus potentially opening the door to future forensic analysis. > > --Lucky, who thought that he once, many years ago, read that there was a > kernel option one should set if you have no swap partition. > >
It seems like you can encrypt swap with GBDE, at least that's what one item at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/todo.html says. The manpage doesn't mention encrypting swap though. - Christian -- http://www.unixpages.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Pub-Key : www.unixpages.org/cbrueffer.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D GPG Key ID : 0xA0ED982D
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