Swap File Encryption when to use it?

i cant see the "move the location of your swap" under my win 7 x64...
am i missing something out there?

 

Just uncheck "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives", set C: to "No paging file", and then set [LETTER OF RAM DRIVE]: to custom size. After "OK" and reboot, the swap file will be moved. Don't forget to delete the old pagefile.sys afterwards.

 

oww awesome mate

btw what do u think on maybe easy way .. like creating a protected container(with bestcrypy or truecrypt) , and moving / set page file over there ...In your opinion can it be done like the ram drive way?


cheers

 

Putting the page file in an encrypted container is a great idea in theory, but unfortunately it's not going to work. The page file is initialized early in the Windows boot-up process... well before any applications (such as Bestcrypt) are started. Therefore it won't be possible to mount the container in time, so the allocation of swap space will fail and revert back to its original C: location.

 

I don't understand why you're even considering putting the swapfile into a ramdisk (highly inefficient) or an encrypted container (plain impossible). The best approach is already sitting right in front of you. If you're using BestCrypt's container encryption then all you have to do is enable the swapfile encryption feature that's included in the program. As has been stated earlier in this thread, upon every reboot the swapfile is automatically encrypted with a new unique key that is not retained after shutdown. What's not to like?

If you feel that the above methods wouldn't provide you with enough security then the next step would be system encryption.

 

yes i did enable this option , but maybe it can be hacked when stop the boot process at the dos level or disabling the encryption option in bestcrypt and than you get the swap unprotected / encrypted.