Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export.

Bryan Andersen
2003-05-12T23:45:43Z

You want it secure, never write it to disk. If that is not an option,
then all that is written to a disk must be encrypted. Anything less is
a placebo. Anyways as Alan mentioned:

> 4. Even then data erasure is not guaranteed because of the drive logic

From the write speed differences I've seen on my own system between
writing zero filled buffers and random data filled buffers it looks like
a good number of drives do zero filled block write optimizations. From
the efective write rates on a couple of my drives it looks like they are
just marking the blocks as zero in a master table rather than really
writing zeros out to them.

- Bryan

Yoav Weiss wrote:
> Until linux gets a real encrypted swap (the kind OpenBSD implements), you
> can settle for encrypting your whole swap with one random key that gets
> lost on reboot. Encrypted loop dev with a key from /dev/random easily
> gives you that.
>
> Download the latest loop-AES from http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/ and
> follow the "Encrypting swap on 2.4 kernels" section in README.
>
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