Re: Q: encrypted swap

2000-08-22 Thread Walter Belgers
Robert Watson wrote: > > So, I think having the option to use encrypted swap on FreeBSD would be > > nice. Is anybody already working on this? If not, how do I get somebody > > to work on it? ;-) > > There has been discussion and substantial interest in an encrypted swap > interface on the free

Re: Q: encrypted swap

2000-08-22 Thread Mike Meyer
Mark Murray writes: > > So, I think having the option to use encrypted swap on FreeBSD > > would be nice. Is anybody already working on this? If not, how do > > I get somebody to work on it? ;-) > Ever since the Phoenecians invented money, there has been at least > one guaranteed answer to that :

Re: Q: encrypted swap

2000-08-22 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Walter Belgers wrote: > Last week I was at USENIX where Niels Provos talked about his > implementation of encrypted swap in OpenBSD. What is does is encrypting > all memory that gets swapped out, keeping the encryption keys in memory. > A test showed that all kinds of intere

Re: Q: encrypted swap

2000-08-22 Thread Mark Murray
> So, I think having the option to use encrypted swap on FreeBSD > would be nice. Is anybody already working on this? If not, how do > I get somebody to work on it? ;-) Ever since the Phoenecians invented money, there has been at least one guaranteed answer to that :-) M -- Mark Murray Join the

Q: encrypted swap

2000-08-22 Thread Walter Belgers
Hi, Last week I was at USENIX where Niels Provos talked about his implementation of encrypted swap in OpenBSD. What is does is encrypting all memory that gets swapped out, keeping the encryption keys in memory. A test showed that all kinds of interesting things wind up in the swap partition; Nie