On 05/24/2012 03:20 PM, Gerry Reno wrote: > Since I'm putting an SSD in my laptop this is important because the laptop > drive must be encrypted.
I hope your CPU has AES-NI. A powerful i7 does AES at 50MiB/s (don't remember exactly, but below 100MiB/s) without AES-NI and about 900MiB/s with AES-NI. SSDs speed is usually around 250MiB/s, so AES-NI is required to maintain speed. Additional hint: I would avoid xts modes, as the speed is halved (450MiB/s) for not really convincing security reasons. I'm running AES with NI on a SSD and the CPUs are almost undisturbed by disk activities. Cipher name: aes Cipher mode: cbc-essiv:sha256 Hash spec: sha256 -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
