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Re: Securing linux swap partition with crypto fs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Coffey)
Fri Jun 30 17:58:38 2000
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 16:21:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Coffey <david.coffey@cimedia.com>
To: steve@fractalus.com
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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I believe that PPDD allows ecryption of the root file system, and the swap
file system.
http://linux01.gwdg.de/~alatham/ppdd.html
--Dave
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, [iso-8859-1] SteveC wrote:
> If mid-crypt someone swapped a process to the swap
> partition, presumably they could read the in-memory
> key (depending on the software?) from there.
>
> Is it possible to use the crypto filesystems (eg
> www.kerneli.org) to make the swap partition secure
> somehow?
>
> How open is the so called thinkpad sleep partiton that
> writes laptop memory to disk?
>
> Have fun.
>
> SteveC steve@fractalus.com
> www.fractalus.com/fracsaver/
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