another aes-loopback question -- /tmp directory

Jeremy Baker jab-76OBl6+JcyzDN57Tih+YPw at public.gmane.org
Mon Mar 3 03:07:15 UTC 2008


On March 2, 2008 10:00:48 pm Ian Petersen wrote:
> I've seen articles that suggest mounting /tmp as an encrypted
> partition with a random password generated at each boot.  Software is
> not supposed to rely on the contents of /tmp surviving a power cycle,
> so starting with a clean slate each time you power on should be fine.
>
> Ian

I have my /tmp and swap partitions encrypted with /dev/random as the key, but 
I am using dmcrypt not aes-loopback.

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