Kicksecure Calamares Installer - is swap encrypted?

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Here some things I have a question about in relation to the installer.

What is the default handling of swap? I know kicksecure has RADS which is super nice. However my question is how does the installer set certain things related to swap in the background.

Two examples that come to mind and might need to be clarified in documentation for Kicksecure. If you select full disk encryption then swap is encrypted right? Second is if you just select to encrypt the Home folder is swap encrypted or no? Is the default handling in Kicksecure is that swap always encrypted or is it only encrypted when selecting FDE in the installer?

What I’m saying is swap encrypted in both cases regardless if you choose to do FDE or just Encrypted /Home installation?

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In Kicksecure, it doesn’t. The installer installs without swap, and does not offer the user the ability to make a swap file. Instead, a swapfile is created dynamically by swap-file-creator. Its behavior is documented here:

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