[clug] Ubuntu encrypted file systems

[Peter Barker]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, David Tulloh wrote:

> Argh, my bad.  On further reading kernel reading is never swapped so your 
> disk decryption key would be safe*.
> Your email password, ssh keys and open files are still accessible though.

Various programs lock the pages on which they store passphrases and other 
sensitive stuff.  See the "BUGS" section in "man gpg".  I do not know 
which of the examples you give there are covered by my point, 'though.

> David

Yours,
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