-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Scott Bennett wrote: (snip) > I'm not a LINUX user, but I would be surprised if there were not some > similar facility in LINUX, but I haven't the foggiest notion how one would get > Windows XP to encrypt its swapping/paging file or even whether Windows XP has > that capability. (snip)
There are indeed facilities for ephemeral swap encryption in Linux; I've actually done it by three different methods to date (you'll have to look up the exact docs used, though): * Loop-AES module in Fedora Core 4-6 (AES-256, CBC); * Dm-crypt in Fedora 7 (AES-256, LRW); * Persistent (passphrase-based) root filesystem encryption from install-time, via Dm-crypt (AES-256, CBC:ESSIV-SHA256), and ephemeral ("random-key") swap area encryption via the same method (and identical module, cipher, and mode-of-op), in Debian 4.0. The first two were before installers included this kind of stuff (AFAIK), and so I sort of hacked it together using some scripts I wrote; in the third, the functionality had been integrated into the installer. =:oD - -- F. Fox Owner of node "kitsune" CompTIA A+, Net+, Security+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHVgWObgkxCAzYBCMRAtD/AJ9k8v9inAREHNkSLzEcf53KzZ3b7gCePOxE pi54oGaCX5L5sMnoFmAmwlI= =6LO7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----