Re: Encrypt swap? LOOP:_SET_STATUS failed.

[Max Vozeler <max@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:01:37PM +0100, Jan Johansson wrote:
> >You have a typo there. s/ASE/AES/
> 
> Guess how stupid I feel now? Thanks. :)
 
Happens to everyone :-) 

> Do I understand correctly that this will generate a new key every reboot?
> But how does that logic work? What scripts/inits takes care of that=

Yes, the key is regenerated every reboot. swapon takes a hash of
existing data on the partition and 32 bytes from /dev/urandom and 
generates keys from those. There are no scripts involved.

cheers,
Max

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