On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 11:11:23AM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: > > The HowTo doesn't say whether or not their crypto filesystem supports swap, > though obviously since you have to input a password to mount the filesystem, > you'd need to have some kind of user interface running before mounting the > swap, > which may be a problem. It'd be interesting to try hacking around this, > since swap doesn't need a password from a user - it just needs a random > password > to use consistently for an entire session, and if it's lost between reboots, > that just means you need to make a new swap filesystem on the partition > each time.
You should check the linux-crypto archives on encrypting swap, it's been discussed a lot, and a number of people have it working well. http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/ -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com
