From: Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 11:04:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47074F94.2020907@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68b1e2610710052122s221a5495wd5a4b2ed9235af4@mail.gmail.com>
Liviu Andronic schrieb:
> On 10/5/07, Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> There is an option in baselayout's rc file to erase the swap at
>> shutdown. Take a look at /etc/conf.d/rc under RC_SWAP_ERASE.
>
> As far as I understand, this is far from secure. You want at least
> some degree of security, you need cryptography. See:
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/SWAP_ERASE_on_halt .
I don't use it myself, just thought it may be helpful.
I have checked newer baselayout versions for this option before and i
wondered why it wasn't there, so now i know the reason. Thanks!
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-04 6:42 [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions? Liviu Andronic
2007-10-04 13:47 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-10-04 14:34 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-10-04 15:52 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-10-04 16:04 ` Liviu Andronic
2007-10-04 17:49 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-10-04 18:28 ` Liviu Andronic
2007-10-04 19:48 ` Mick
2007-10-05 20:57 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2007-10-06 4:22 ` Liviu Andronic
2007-10-06 9:04 ` Daniel Pielmeier [this message]
2007-10-04 16:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-10-04 18:33 ` Liviu Andronic
2007-10-05 11:38 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-10-05 18:57 ` Randy Barlow
2007-10-05 20:44 ` Liviu Andronic
2007-10-09 1:51 ` Alex Schuster
2007-10-15 21:45 ` Liviu Andronic
2007-10-04 18:53 ` Randy Barlow
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