Subject: Re: questions about netbsd
To: Paul de Weerd <paul@mail.me.maar.nu>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/10/2003 14:40:08
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Hi,

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 12:38:50PM +0100, Paul de Weerd wrote:
> What if the encryption key used to encrypt your cgd device is stored
> in unencrypted swap ?
>=20
> I'm not saying encrypted fs's are useless without encrypted swap, just
> that there is the point you made - don't delude yourself into thinking
> you're unltimately secure with cgd and unencrypted swap.

Uhm, this hint might have been given upthreads already, but you can use
cgd with a random, secret key as your swap device. At least this is mention=
ed
in the documentation.

However, your cpulage will go up a lot on ancient workstations.

Regards,
	-is

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