From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 22 23:51: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from teletubbie.het.net.je (teletubbie.het.net.je [192.87.110.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DB3037B43F; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 23:51:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by teletubbie.het.net.je (Postfix, from userid 500) id 52CD81B21C; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 08:51:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 08:51:00 +0200 To: Robert Watson Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: encrypted swap Message-ID: <20000823085100.A32468@teletubbie.het.net.je> References: <20000822103856.A18347@teletubbie.het.net.je> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from rwatson@freebsd.org on Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 12:08:04PM -0400 From: walter@belgers.com (Walter Belgers) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Watson wrote: > > So, I think having the option to use encrypted swap on FreeBSD would be > > nice. Is anybody already working on this? If not, how do I get somebody > > to work on it? ;-) > > There has been discussion and substantial interest in an encrypted swap > interface on the freebsd-security mailing list in the last month or so. Ah. I guess I didn't use the right search criteria when checking the mailing lists then. Sorry. > So the short of it: infrastructure work is under way that should make > encrypted swap an easy addition in the near future. The layered approach sounds like a fine one to me. I can wait until Poul-Henning gets to it :) Cheers, Walter. -- Walter Belgers "Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus walter@belgers.com Latinis alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message