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From: Max Kalika <max@g.o>
To: Justin Whitney <ripple@××××××.be>, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] dm-crypt ebuild/initscript
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:15:31
Message-Id: 2147483647.1077963328@[192.168.26.4]
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] dm-crypt ebuild/initscript by Justin Whitney
1 Quoting Justin Whitney <ripple@××××××.be>:
2
3 > I submitted a patch to device-mapper-1.00.07 that makes dmsetup lock its
4 > pages. This should prevent swaps between 'hashalot | dmsetup', so with
5 > a few changes to the dm-crypt init script, people should be able to
6 > encrypt their block devices leaving swap unencrypted, and not have to
7 > worry about their key leaking to swap. checkout the following if
8 > interested.
9 >
10 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43162
11
12 Is this something the dm upstream folk are aware of?
13
14 --
15 max kalika
16 .. public key: http://www.gentoo.org/~max/max.asc
17 .. fingerprint: 2D59 74B5 8785 3C22 74F2 87B0 6DD4 E810 CBC3 AB79

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