If data is being written to swap...........
And you are writing to osama bin laden daily (but have been smart enough to encrypt you hard disk partitions and all your emails) then when the CIA/FBI get your computer, they can search your swap and see what you have been saying to Osama.

The guy is very paranoid, either into porn of some deviant variety or terrorist stuff, writing virulent viruses he intends to release into the wild, money laundering, working for a drug king-pin, helping finance the opposition etc.

The point is that he expects the possibility of his computer being seized by the "authorities" for some behavior that the society in general (or the "authorities" in particular) does not approve of.  

When they do get his computer he wants to be sure that they cannot look at ANY of his data.

The only flaw in the plan is ..... The "authorities" will fly you to a safe-house in northern poland, attach 250 Volts to your nuts and get you to enter the password yourself. You will actually volunteer to do so in any language they choose and you will apologise for making them buy you the plane ticket to poland, and offer to refund them the money.

Kiggs

On Dec 27, 2005, at 10:49 AM, Lule George William wrote:

Dear all,
Hope all of you are still alive after Christmas. Been researching on something 
but stumbled on a posting where some guy is asking for help on how to encrypt 
the swap partition, but he didn't say why he wants to encrypt it. 
I have tried to look at it from different perspectives, but considering the 
circumstances that would force a machine to swap and when it does, the time 
data spends in swap, I still have failed to see why someone would need to 
encrypt swap. Can someone help me on this before I dismiss the fellow as an 
over zealous security freak?
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Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi
P.O. Box 5498 Kampala
Uganda
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