From: Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] passfrase or dev_random for keyfile of a dmcrypt_swap
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:01:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100419190146.GA7656@fancy-poultry.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100419163745.C906144B6C@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com>
On 19.04.2010, Si St wrote:
> I am thinking about a potential crash and the consequences if the swap partition has to be used for rebuild of something.
> Then a /dev/random or if necessary /dev/urandom would not be so good.
In this case, the only way to go is to have a passphrase, a randomly
generated key means you're locked out after the partition is closed.
Another possibility, if this sounds acceptable for you, is to pre-generate
a keyfile which resides on the root partition (and you keep a backup of it
on a safe place somwhere outside this machine), which is then used to
automatically unlock the swap partition in the boot process.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-19 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-19 16:37 [dm-crypt] passfrase or dev_random for keyfile of a dmcrypt_swap Si St
2010-04-19 16:54 ` Arno Wagner
2010-04-19 19:01 ` Heinz Diehl [this message]
2010-04-20 5:41 ` Luca Berra
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2010-04-20 14:15 Si St
2010-04-20 15:15 ` Arno Wagner
2010-04-21 8:34 ` Heinz Diehl
2010-04-21 9:06 ` Jonas Meurer
2010-04-20 18:06 Si St
2010-04-20 19:14 ` Arno Wagner
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