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A comment on FreeBSD Full Disk Encryption, with an External Boot Drive, GELI, and UFS (2015). Parent comment

Re:FreeBSD Full Disk Encryption, with an External Boot Drive... by 616c on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @03:35PM (#11292361)
> FreeBSD doesn't have software suspend-to-disk support (and it's almost never implemented by the BIOS).

Linux has spoied me so bad I never noticed the former, and I am shocked by the latter.

Nice to get a response from a completely ignorant BSD and security notice, by the way. :-) I guess I could ego trip and say "how can I trust this user" but I suspect others will chuckle like me.

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Re:FreeBSD Full Disk Encryption, with an External Boot Drive... by cperciva on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @04:31PM (#11292741)
I'm having trouble understanding this comment. Possibly due to typos?
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Re:FreeBSD Full Disk Encryption, with an External Boot Drive... by chongli on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @04:53PM (#11292894)
I think this person is impressed that the founder of Tarsnap would respond to the question of a novice.
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