Hm, maybe I was a bit too eager and fast changing the status. What I
meant was that /dev/random needs noise to generate random numbers:

"When the entropy pool is empty, reads from /dev/random will block until
additional environmental noise is gathered." (from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random)

So it actually makes sense that you should use /dev/urandom for this
task. Since we are "only" talking about encrypting a swap partition, I
think this is safe enough. But please correct me on this, if I'm wrong.

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[jaunty] encrypted swap breaks (or slows a lot) the boot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367260
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