On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Stephen Adler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've run across an interesting situation at where where I'm required to > encrypt my desktop at home since it's owned by the government. Any > advice on how to best setup an encrypted linux system? Preferably using > some kind of encrypted hardware device which will not kill my disk IO > rate?
I'm going to also put in a vote for software based encryption (dm-crypt). I've been using it on my laptop for several years now. Even with a simple dual-core CPU, the tests I did of disk IO at the time didn't seem to show any significant change in throughput. On a quad (or higher) core desktop, I would expect it to be even less notable. Since this is an imposed requirement, I think the first question is: What does the outside agency find acceptable? It may very well be that they will only accept hardware or commercial software (i.e. "certified") solutions. Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
