Thank-you to everyone for their suggestions. I think I will go with an
external eSATA drive. The P3 may not be fast enough, in which case I assume
moving to a faster machine will be easier with an external than an internal
drive. Please let me know if this is not the case!
I was looking on newegg, and found 1TB drives for less than $150. However,
they are advertised to be eSATA compatible for DVRs. Are they also
compatible as backup devices? I was looking at this one in particular:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822186175
Do you have any recommendations for a PCI 33MHz eSATA drive controller for
external eSATA drives that works with Debian?
Thanks!
Mark
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Stephen Joyce <[email protected]>wrote:
> For anything any of us (consumers of free backup products) are likely to
> do, anything stronger than original DES is probably fine.
>
>
> If you want background info,
>
> http://www.security-forums.com/viewtopic.php?printertopic=1&t=6690&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&vote=viewresult&sid=19654e84950fe8608fde7e4a951da0ee
> has a good end-user perspective of some of the most common ciphers.
>
> The take home is: avoid DES due to the short length of its key. 3DES is
> secure (30+ years of use), but slow. Blowfish has a good reputation for
> being fast, simple, and secure. If you're paranoid, think about AES, but
> remember the recent advisories concerning AES keys >= 128-bits.
>
> Disclaimer: I am *not* a cryptographic expert; I just know how to use
> google. :-)
>
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
>
> > Stephen Joyce wrote at about 10:31:44 -0400 on Thursday, September 3,
> 2009:
> > > Have you tried ssh -c blowfish?
> > >
> > > 3des is the default cipher for most ssh implementations and blowfish is
> > > much faster than 3des.
> >
> > Thanks - I wasn't aware of that.
> > What (if any) are the downsides to using 'blowfish' vs 3DES?
> >
> >
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