Re: encrypting swap (was Re: TEST)

[Denis Ducamp <Denis.Ducamp@hsc.fr>]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 02:41:56PM +0000, James Stevenson wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> one of the things that i though was what is the point in encrypting the
> swap file under linux i do not see any benifits
> it would be slower
> no added security (/proc/kcore ?) unless the person who set the system
> up has left the swap world readable (duh) if you are root you can just
> poke around the processes memory anyway

That has been done under OpenBSD because the author stopped his system and
found very interresting informations in the swap.

That exist against people physically stealing hard drives with swap.

Denis.

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