On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Sam Clemens
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Saturday 2008-05-03 at 18:08 -0400, Sam Clemens wrote:
Is there a specific reason you are encrypting swap?
It is standard procedure.
Think: your portable is hibernated and then stolen.
Hint:
The password to mounted encrypted partition is in clear text in memory, thus, in the swap. And any thing you may have opened.
Hint.. if you're portable is hibernated, then when the thief restarts it, all of your partitions are already mounted with good passwords, and can be perused by merely doing
$ strings /dev/kmem | more $ strings /dev/mem | more
Only if you are in a habit of hybernating your lap top while running as root. Who does that anyway? -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org