Subject: Re: encrypted swap?
To: Michael K. Sanders <msanders@confusion.net>
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/04/2001 19:02:21
In some email I received from Michael K. Sanders, sie wrote:
> I tried checking the archives first, but a big chunk of 1999-2000
> seems to be missing for this list.
> 
> Has anyone looked at the encrypted swap option Niels Provos added
> to UVM in OpenBSD?

No, but I've been thinking about what it'd take to add that sort of
feature to NetBSD.

I'm also interested in adding a "zero-swap on shutdown" feature that
writes 0's over the entire swap partition when the box is shutdown
normally (not a panic).

Darren
(moving to tech-kern)