secrets lying around on the HD

[Thomas Sjögren]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 02:34:59PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> The next step is paging: either disable paging entirely, or use an 
> encrypted swap file/swap partition (with quite high performance cost, 
> of course.) 

I run several computers with encrypted swap-partition and /tmp and the
performance cost isn't noticable. The only thing is that
booting takes a couple of seconds longer, since the partitions is trashed
and then re-encrypted (an ugly form on wiping one might say) but thats
about it.

/Thomas
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