On 16/05/2015 22:04, Matthew Dillon wrote: > A more sophisticated encrypted swap using LUKS was already available and > could be set up via the installer, capable of encrypting swap and dumps. > Manual configuration through luks is a bit messy though. > > This feature provides a simpler way to just encrypt swap with a random key > via /etc/fstab, perhaps as a preface to potentially implementing more > sophisticated crypto features in /etc/fstab in the future that use dm-crypt > directly and bypass LUKS. That should have already been possible via crypttab(5) and using /dev/random as the keyfile, without having a LUKS header on the swap partition.
Cheers, Alex
