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zje wrote:I have my entire / partition encrypted (as per management requirement) and I also want to add an encrypted swap partition.

--swap might never even be used if you have enough RAM (memory) free..
Well, as long as it is a requirement
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Encry ... stemHowto8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison ... n_software
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sys ... r_dm-crypt
Only the usual notion, that encrypting the whole partition isn't really necessary
--in that the only valuable data is your own /home directory; encrypting that will protect you well enough

There is truecrypt and other methods available to help you manage that..