Subject: Re: What's in my swap
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 08/03/2006 09:28:36
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On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 03:24:20PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> Actually, you are not correct. Check out the "randomkey" and "urandomkey"=
=20
> key generation methods. They are specifically designed to work with thing=
s=20
> like swap.

That only applies when they're rekeyed - ie, at reboot.  This prevents
operators reading stale swap data from last run, but not swap data for
the current boot.

--
Dan.



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