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Re:Ask HN: What are the best practises for using SSH keys? by majewsky on Sunday September 25, 2016 @06:35PM (#12577828)
> For some reason, /tmp/ isn't encrypted by default as far as I can tell.

It does not give any extra benefit because tmpfs only resides in RAM, and disk encryption typically only concerns data at rest.

If you come to a point where you want to have /tmp/ encrypted, you would rather encrypt the whole RAM. (Does anyone actually do that?)

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