Re: Encrypted Swap

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Tue, 7 Aug 2001 14:27:26 -0300 (BRST)


On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, David Maynor wrote:

> My suggestion is instead of worrying about the swap space, or the tmp
> space, worry about an entire OS security posture(eg. filesystem, memory,
> boot). So if a machine is stolen or comprised, there is an onion of
> security protecting you, not just one or two things.

What you are saying above suspiciously sounds like:

"I want an onion, lets leave out the layers!"

If you really want an onion, I suspect encrypted
swap will be a useful layer to have as part of your
onion...

Rik

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