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Re: KAUTH_SYSTEM_UNENCRYPTED_SWAP



On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 09:08:14PM +0100, Alexander Nasonov wrote:
> matthew green wrote:
> > what's the use-case for disabling encrypted swap later?
> 
> It might be too slow on some machines.
> 
> > i'd argue we should avoid kauth for this and simply disable
> > it always as i've been unable to think of any use case that
> > is the only solution.
> 
> Always encrypted swap would be even better but ... slow machines.

Compared to the time required to put the pages out to disk?

Could try chacha8.

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