[mc] history not always history

[Rob McGee]

On 2023-08-06 11:31, mi via mc wrote:
> Encrypting swap reminds me of that experiment, decades ago, when a > friend moved swap to a floppy disk. Hahaha. Immediately frozen.
> What a deal!

Haha. The machine I did this on was a P166, long out of date even then. 
But the scheme really caused no perceptible performance hit. A slight 
boot delay while encrypting the loop device, but I wasn't doing that 
very often, so no harm there.

Of course to be realistic about the threat model, local LEAs are not 
going to have the ability to deal with a Linux system, much less get 
data out of swap, and even less to be able to break swap encryption. 
Even at the time I knew this, but I did it anyway because it was fun.
:)
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