At 10:23 AM -0700 7/9/03, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: >And shutting off your virtual memory swapping >--useful today because of the gobs of DRAM machines have-- >will no longer be useful for security.
Encrypted swap is a crypto sweet spot, because it has perhaps the easiest key management of any crypto system. It seems that the BSD systems have it while Linux still thinks it is difficult. See: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/swapencrypt.ps Cheers - Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | "A Jobless Recovery is | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | like a Breadless Sand- | 16345 Englewood Ave. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wich." -- Steve Schear | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA
