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Re: [rfc] Dropping loop-aes from d-i



On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 01:10:57PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Max Vozeler wrote:
> > a couple of factors which make me consider dropping support for
> > loop-aes from d-i (mostly partman-crypto).
> 
> So what should people now use for encrypted swap without passphrase?

Debian cryptdisk scripts support that as well.

> Hmmm. OTOH, I do have that on one laptop and it works fine with upstream 
> kernels (at least, I've never noticed a problem). Wonder what exactly I 
> did there.

In partman-crypto, IIRC we just configure the encrypted
mapping to use /dev/urandom as keyfile and add the "swap"
option in crypttab. That ensures mkswap is run.
 
	Max


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