Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 19:35:11 -0400 From: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> To: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> Cc: Peter B <pb@ludd.luth.se> Subject: Re: Encrypted filesystems Message-ID: <200306262335.h5QNZBNF003209@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Jun 2003 12:20:50 PDT." <3EFB4792.5080805@tenebras.com>
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In message <3EFB4792.5080805@tenebras.com>, Michael Sierchio writes: > Peter B wrote: [...] > > Which operating systems manage to effectivly to use encrypted swap..? > > That's quite a different problem -- Poul-Henning Kamp's done work > in GEOM based disk encryption which is directly applicable to > encrypting swap. Key management is always interesting. You might check the work/papers by Niels Provos on encrypted swap. We've been working on this problem for our NCryptfs. To provide a comprehensive solution, we have to also handle swap. Luckily in Linux, there are specific VOPs and APIs that make it easy to hook a crypto f/s w/ the swap. Erez.
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