On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

: There's a couple of things this should really have, if we're going to
: include it in NetBSD:
:
: 1) Support in the very similar code for swapping to files.
: 2) random-key support, for data you don't care about keeping across a
:    reboot (e.g. swapfiles, /tmp).
: 3) support for a key passed in from the bootblocks, and a mountroot hook
:    to configure the encrypted vnd would be a huge win.

...but none of these should be a barrier to bringin in one part of the
functionality.

This is something we've been missing for *ages*, and even if it only works
in one place (vnd) first, it's a Start.

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