Re: crypted swapspace?
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
14 Dec 1999 20:14:57 -0800
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.991214144130.13635B-100000@idoru.mine.nu>
By author: Lucca <sdlucca@mindspring.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Also... grabbing a key from the entropy available at "first swap" isn't
> necessarily a good idea. What if there isn't enough entropy? Go
> unsecure? Worse, block until entropy replenishes... (as is normal for
> /dev/random) yuck.
>
That's easy enough... just preload /dev/random before you swapon.
-hpa
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