Tor uses swap?

[andre76 at fastmail.fm]

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On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:16 -0500, "Roger Dingledine" <arma at mit.edu>
wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 02:14:09PM +0100, andre76 at fastmail.fm wrote:
> > I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and Tor browser bundle with scripts forbidden.
> > 
> > Does any of my web search results or web pages (or anything else during
> > the web session) I look at get sent to or put on the SWAP partition of
> > my machine?
> 
> Could be. The Tor Browser Bundle for Linux is just an ordinary
> application. It doesn't control your swap either way. You don't start
> it as root, so it can't.
> 
> I'd suggest that you should be using encrypted swap by default. Everybody
> should.
> 

I sure would LOVE to know an easy way to encrypt my swap.  My plan had
been to do a fresh reinstallation of Ubuntu 10.04 on my dual-boot
machine but I got to the "encrypt the disk" portion of the installation
using Alternate CD and quit.  There were too many questions or settings
that I had no idea what to enter.





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