On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 05:37:45PM +0100, Si St wrote: > What should be recommended: > > To apply either /dev/random or a passfrase for the establishment of a > keyfile to a swap partition? Allways /dev/random, unless you have a low-entropy scenario, in which you may have to combine it with a stored and updated seed. > 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. The swap partition is not used in reconstructing things under Linux. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
