u r thinking way too complicated. Take ur computer, open it, take the hard drive out, attache it to a working linux box and READ anything on the extra drive. It's like taking a picture of your old system's memory after u turned the machine off. so, u don't need to watch a horror movie to be horrified. This is such a simple thing to do. I call that very horrifying... how about u. regards, Chris Geoffrey wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Friday 2005-11-18 at 02:26 +0100, miguel gmail wrote:
Sorry to break the thread... but, what's the point to encrypt the swap?
Thinking aloud [.....] a swap device might be readable by some users, while the system is running. Lets see, mine has permissions:
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 9 2005-10-07 02:48 /dev/hda9
Actually, the swap is on the hard drive, thus I suspect that there may be data retained on it even after a reboot, although I'm not sure of this. I don't know if the kernel purges the swap on shutdown or reboot, but somehow I doubt that is the case.