From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hubert Chan Subject: Re: secure delete? Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:04:01 -0500 Sender: news Message-ID: <87u10k4ydq.fsf@uhoreg.ca> References: <1079691239.5767.7.camel@pear.st-and.ac.uk> <405AD31A.7070304@mweb.co.za> <20040319110748.GA30491@chihiro.cern.ch> <405AD9B5.80102@namesys.com> <1079697068.5812.13.camel@pear.st-and.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Foldiak writes: Peter> On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 11:29, Hans Reiser wrote: >> Encrypt everything is what will work best. Peter> I guess you would have to use an encrypted swap area as well, Peter> right? Would the performance be ok for that? Peter If you have any sensitive information, then encrypted swap is a good idea. I'm using encrypted swap, and I'm not experiencing any noticeable performance hits. But I have sufficient RAM (374MB) so it doesn't swap often. If your machine swaps a lot, I would assume that performance would be bad (but it's probably already bad if you swap a lot). -- Hubert Chan - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.