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Re:Linux workstation security checklist by yellowapple on Friday August 28, 2015 @08:13PM (#10138467)
Ideally, you wouldn't even have a dedicated swap partition. No data is always more secure than even the most perfectly-encrypted data.

If you do have swap, though, then the encryption probably won't matter much compared to the fact that your machine is swapping in the first place.

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Re:Linux workstation security checklist by vonuebelgarten on Friday August 28, 2015 @09:31PM (#10138632)
Hibernation is a very nice feature (I use it for laptop and desktop machines) and it requires a swap partition. Also, a encrypted swap is even more important in this scenario.

In the laptop I'm typing this, swap is one of the partions over a LVM2 physical volume over LUKS.

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Re:Linux workstation security checklist by yellowapple on Monday August 31, 2015 @12:51PM (#10147698)
That's why I sad "ideally" :)
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