From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ie1PL-0004ZP-AI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:36:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l964QGsW022223; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 04:26:16 GMT Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.189]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l964M1lS017357 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 04:22:02 GMT Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id i10so1125638mue for ; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:22:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=iZ1bQuPsXTAYcWgGx3YcUZdLdyfkl5YvLgWKvFKNd8k=; b=n9DqcKLYhX6rK+YeSFJFTa/SDEcxzfItg41BEPacd6pAc5XSXQoA4763cvxGtJRFCdeGMhihS23mAGrSWYr8QkEQoNvI+64MZe/cbVPbk6u+7O6PPYi0jHzSkncfPCQcV9MI+J66yzUJgdTHOZxsqzLMVKM3rxr6zIkD05lfCvk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jl1X7sztV4QUa+P80k7eCRoBU9iwU1bFwfUDblVlY0vkd5Jm6s8uVnhQc0vCkGWpaIp8o3XAA4w/WUQGKjfTfKoABn2phmC4cGa7gEzeNrWK6bzshHyhY4ml6zI69wFPLwIoCK3mBDbmhWZqGJxM8VpgswjR83mvIYdvy4iBr0o= Received: by 10.64.3.9 with SMTP id 9mr2353227qbc.1191644520811; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:22:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.215.19 with HTTP; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:22:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <68b1e2610710052122s221a5495wd5a4b2ed9235af4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 06:22:00 +0200 From: "Liviu Andronic" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions? In-Reply-To: <4706A54C.90205@googlemail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <68b1e2610710032342j1b47ff5g8f868d8fcc0179ef@mail.gmail.com> <200710041547.53084.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <20071004163457.2bf0ad43.hilse@web.de> <200710041752.03322.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <4706A54C.90205@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0eb93345-3a9f-405d-a14b-e2abffa7b904 X-Archives-Hash: 7c7404cd130a81b4503fdd52469cdf2a Hello, On 10/5/07, Daniel Pielmeier 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 . Regards, Liviu -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list