[Cryptography] It's all K&R's fault

[Jonathan Thornburg]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 08:18:18PM -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
> And encrypted swap is really the sweet spot for encryption because
> all the key management problems just go away:
[[...]]

For anyone who hasn't read them, the paper/slides describing OpenBSD's
swap encryption (which has been turned *on* in the default install
since ~2000) make interesting reading:
  http://www.openbsd.org/papers/swapencrypt.pdf
  http://www.openbsd.org/papers/swapencrypt-slides.pdf

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