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Bug#795735: partman-crypto: always encrypt swap



Hi Lars,

Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> (2015-08-16):
> Package: partman-crypto
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: d-i
> 
> Could we enable encryption of swap by default, even when full disk
> encryption is not used? As far as I undrestand, there is no
> performance issue for this for most hardware made in the past
> half-decade. Swap encryption also doesn't require the user to enter a
> password: it can be generated on the fly for each boot.

JFTR: partman-crypto and swap needs somebody to go over it; I've seen
some reports about signature not being the right one, and bits of
cryptsetup not being fully set correctly. I haven't had time to look
into that yet.

> This was suggested in the Debian GnuPG BoF at Debconf15.

Thanks for forwarding this to us.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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