Re: Encrypted swap and partitions

[Vincent Bernat <bernat@free.fr>]

OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du vendredi 15 août 2003, vers 17:15,
Marc Singer <elf@buici.com> disait:

>> Encrypted partitions need user interaction to be mounted (the password
>> is not generated on the fly, like for the swap), 

> I thought I just read that it is possible to mount swap without
> entering a password.  Sadly, i cannot now find the reference.  It said
> that with certain loopback options, the swapfile is mounted with a
> random key generated by the kernel.

Yes, it is possible. Use mcookie to build a password (or any other
tool), then instruct losetup to read the password from stdin (-p 0).
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