swap-encryption paper missing from www/index.html

2008-07-16 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
A web-site glitch: The paper Neils Provos Encrypting Virtual Memory http://www.openbsd.org/papers/swapencrypt.ps is missing from the OpenBSD related pre3sentations papers index page http://www.openbsd.org/papers/index.html ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] t =

Re: swap encryption Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-15 Thread Gilbert Fernandes
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 01:02:42PM +0100, knitti wrote: swap encryption on OpenBSD is done different than what you advise. just use a sysctl for vm.swapencrypt.enable. Much less maintenance headaches. an yes, don't complain about being reminded that this is not a netbsd / linux support

swap encryption Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-14 Thread knitti
Gilbert, Douglas, swap encryption on OpenBSD is done different than what you advise. just use a sysctl for vm.swapencrypt.enable. Much less maintenance headaches. an yes, don't complain about being reminded that this is not a netbsd / linux support list. --knitti

Re: swap encryption Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-14 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 01:02:42PM +0100, knitti wrote: Gilbert, Douglas, swap encryption on OpenBSD is done different than what you advise. just use a sysctl for vm.swapencrypt.enable. Much less maintenance headaches. besides, since a few releases it has been enabled by default

Re: swap encryption

2007-12-14 Thread Nick Guenther
On Dec 14, 2007 10:45 AM, Lars Noodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not that clear if it is, at least on the version of OpenBSD 4.2 I have. It's very much a plain vanilla setup however, /etc/sysctl.conf says: #vm.swapencrypt.enable=0 # 0=Do not encrypt pages that go to swap To me that

Re: swap encryption

2007-12-14 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 05:45:11PM +0200, Lars Nood??n wrote: Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 01:02:42PM +0100, knitti wrote: Gilbert, Douglas, swap encryption on OpenBSD is done different than what you advise. just use a sysctl for vm.swapencrypt.enable. Much less

Re: swap encryption

2007-12-14 Thread Lars Noodén
Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 01:02:42PM +0100, knitti wrote: Gilbert, Douglas, swap encryption on OpenBSD is done different than what you advise. just use a sysctl for vm.swapencrypt.enable. Much less maintenance headaches. besides, since a few releases it has been

Re: swap encryption

2007-12-14 Thread Lars Noodén
Bret Lambert wrote: ... The fact that you have to *change* a setting to get it to *not* encrypt swap should be a strong indicator that the default is to do so. Yes. That's what I wrote: according to sysctl, encryption is enabled by default. But the examples in /etc/sysctl.conf are set up the