From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 06:34:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 06:33:54 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:44042 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 06:33:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 12:33:58 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: David Spreen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Encrypted Swap Message-ID: <20010807123358.B31832@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010807042810.A23855@foobar.toppoint.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010807042810.A23855@foobar.toppoint.de>; from david@spreen.de on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 04:28:10AM +0200 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 04:28:10AM +0200, David Spreen wrote: > Hey there, > I was just searching for swap-encryption-solutions in the lkml-archive. > Did I get the point saying ther's no way to do swap encryption > in linux right now? (Well, a swapfile in an encrypted kerneli > partition r something like that is not really what I want to > do I think). cryptoloop on the blkdev or filebacked should work just fine. However it will increase memory pressure and it increases the probability for a deadlock (but normal 2.4 swap activities can deadlock anyways if you do the math). Andrea