On June 5, 2005 09:03 am, Archaic wrote: .. > If swap is flushed at shutdown, and since it cannot be read unless one > is root (or has a mis-configured box), what exactly does swap encryption > add other than a false sense of security?
It's mainly for physical security, for laptops, and removable media like cdrom backups. Its also possible for an intruder root to dd the swap partition and download the image, to look for other passwords... but its mainly for physical security. robert -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
