On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 12:44:27PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > By that token, it would be of use for NetBSD to port over the encrypted > swap features other OSes have (it should be essentially no performance > hit),
Writing even an encrypted copy of a passphrase to disk is still a hazard compared to not writing it at all. Programs that deal with such things should lock themselves in memory. :-/ > and I think it would also be nice if NetBSD could zeroize or > randomize RAM on voluntary shutdowns. That seems like a good idea. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
