Thank God am still alive probably my day hasn't come yet. Well am not a
security freak to that extent but he has a point. :-) 1 Encrypting your swap spaceIt's extremely important to encrypt swap space because if
something
sensitive is swapped out from ram to hard drive space you might end up
needing to run DBAN over the hard drive for the best part of a week to
make sure no one else can get it. 2 Encrypted swap space is pretty much a prerequisite for everything else because you don't want data that's encrypted on another device lying around decrypted in swap space. Fortunately this as well as encrypted file system volumes https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-July/msg00251.html 3 etc... :-) Unfortunately I have nothing to hide sofar Ronny Happy new year ******************************************************************* PGP Fingerprint: 6695 794A B84E D922 88FB 73CC 6CBD 8036 B3CD 7304 We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are ******************************************************************* 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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