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

[Sandy Harris]

Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn at astro.indiana.edu> wrote:

> 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

Do we need swap on current systems? Both server and desktop
boxes now have gigabytes of RAM and I suspect that phones
and such do not have enough or fast enough storage to make
swap very useful. Why not just use an OS that does not swap?