Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Basics of Cryptographic Filesystems

Posted by michael on from the don't-forget-the-password dept.

mix_master_mike writes "Found a good article over at security focus: cryptographic filesystems: design and implementation. Nice piece on this level of security that isn't being used very effectively in the industry."

2 of 24 comments (clear)

  1. Re:encrypted swap space by snowtigger · · Score: 5, Informative

    Very good point.

    And that's why the swap space of OpenBSD is encrypted. Fortunately some programmers already thought of this =)

  2. Re:Catch-22 by spongman · · Score: 3, Informative

    you only need the hey (removable/biometrics) when you boot, the decryption key can then be held in volatile, non-paged RAM until shutdown.