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This is why...
This is why OpenBSD encrypts its swap. One can hope that Apple will at least offer the option to encrypt swap at some point in the future.
In the meantime you can use PGP disk
About a month ago there was a discussion on macintouch.com about security implications of the non-encrypted swap files (search the NEWS pages for swap AND encrypt).
PGP disk works great but.....
While PGP disk works great and I definately reccomnend it as a better replacement to those using FileVault (swap on or not). Using PGP Vault does still not adress all the other security concerns with using vm swap. Keychain login passwords and more are all written to swap plain text.
This is why...
Based on OpenBSD would not make sense for the Mac -- the whole point of OpenBSD is the code review process. So Apple could have their stuff submitted to OpenBSD's code review, but then ALL of their stuff would have to be open-source, and they would have to pull out Aqua etc. etc. etc... until such time as the review was completed. Bah! |
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