Re: password-store /dev/shm mfs

"Andy Bradford" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.misc
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Thus said Janne Johansson on Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:39:59 +0200:

> That is correct, and if ever mfs contents get swapped out, the swap on
> openbsd is always  encrypted by a per-boot random key,  so noone could
> dig it out  of the swapdevice on  the next boot even if  you don't use
> FDE.

Are you sure?  It seems the default is:

#vm.swapencrypt.enable=0        # 0=Do not encrypt pages that go to swap

Andy
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