Dan writes:
> Or, somehow better & safer (or, explain the drawback):
>
> spiral:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1024k count=16
> 16+0 records in
> 16+0 records out
> spiral:~# losetup -e DES /dev/loop0 /swap
> Password:
> Init (up to 16 hex digits):
> spiral:~# mkswap /dev/loop0
> Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 16773120 bytes
> spiral:~# swapon /dev/loop0
> spiral:~# cat /proc/swaps
> Filename Type Size Used Priority
> /dev/loop0 partition 16376 0 -3
>
> Of course, you'll need to enter the losetup password upon booting, which
> might prove annoying
Actually, since you don't care about the old contents of swap on each
boot, just have something like:
losetup -e AES /dev/loop0 /swap < /dev/random
then you get a random password each boot, which is strong because it
uses the full 256 character passwords, as opposed to passwords that
people can easily use/remember.
You would likely need something more along the lines of (I don't know
what input format losetup actually needs):
dd if=/dev/random bs=1 count=16 | od -tx4 | \
awk '/0000000/ { print $2 $3 $4 $5 }' | losetup -e AES -p0 /dev/loop0 /swap
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
\ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert
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