Re: encrypted swap

[Marty Poulin]

From: "Dan Podeanu" <[e-mail]>
> /proc/kcore & the likes). If its going to be stolen while its offline, you
> can have your shutdown scripts blank the swap partition and the boot
> scripts call mkswap on it.

Assuming that the notebook was shutdown correctly is a big assumption.  The
notebook could run out of power or freeze-up and if the user is not able to
immediately able to restart the computer the swap is all laid out with a
ribbon.

No I have to agree that a more elegant solution to this is encrypt
everything and require the user to input the password whenever the system
boots or returns from suspend.

Marty Poulin
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Lead Programmer
Host/Client Communications
Playnet Inc./Cornered Rat Software