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Date:      Fri, 28 Jun 2002 23:29:21 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom geom_aes.c 
Message-ID:  <50332.1025299761@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Jun 2002 14:25:15 PDT." <200206282125.g5SLPF9B021419@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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In message <200206282125.g5SLPF9B021419@freefall.freebsd.org>, Poul-Henning Kam
p writes:
>phk         2002/06/28 14:25:15 PDT
>
>  Modified files:
>    sys/geom             geom_aes.c 
>  Log:
>  Add two new submodes to the AES encryption method.
>  
>  This method is now suitable for encrypting swap spaces.

If you want to do this, you do of course need to run a GEOM kernel.

Second, you need to put a magic tag in the swap-partition to make
this module recognize it:

  echo "<<FreeBSD-GEOM-AES-RANDOM>>" | dd count=1 conv=sync of=${device}

And finally you will need to do your swapping on ${device}.aes

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