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Re: data leakage

Hello everyone

I really do not know anything about this topic; I simply read the article. If you don't believe it, that's fine with me; perhaps it is wrong. I sure didn't write it. : )

Concerning Markus' question

Maybe you'd like to quote the passage that concers you, regarding a
specific setup (f.e., encrypted /home & swap, /tmp in ram) and why
exactly, with regard to the afforementioned setup, could it result in
data leakage?

I was not clear, sorry. I was just asking if *not* using a disk partition as swap (either by not having swap at all or using memory as swap, as the article describes) completely eliminated concerns of having data contained in some encrypted file being written unencrypted to other disk sectors. I understand that (disk-based) swapping is a prime mechanism by which that happens; I was just asking if, by eliminating that swapping, there still were other ways in which sensitive data might get written in unencrypted form to other disk locations.

Well, that's all folks! Now I would be grateful if you could answer the brief loop-AES question I am posting to the list simultaneously.

Best

Marvin


From: Dale Amon <amon@xxxxxxx>

This just strikes me as absurd beyond belief.

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