On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 07:53:03AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Derek Atkins > > > > Personally I've never encrypted my laptops before, but I started > > encrypting my current one. There is definitely a performance hit when > > doing large data movements (it took me much longer to copy my homedir > > from my old disk to the new encrypted disk) but I don't notice a > > significant performance degredation in my everyday usage. > > What are you using? Both in terms of hardware, and encryption tool? > Because I don't have a performance hit... In various situations, on various > types of hardware, using various encryption tools...
Not answering the above, but the Intel Core i-series (maybe only i7?) has hardware AES, making FDE only take maybe 1% of CPU instead of 10-20%. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
