Am Dienstag, den 23.12.2008, 07:42 -0500 schrieb Eric Christensen:
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Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:30:31 +0200, Nikolay Vladimirov wrote:
>
>> Ok. I'm not really sure about this but I think that full disk
>> encryption on a software level
>> with a key storng enough will bring some performance loss. And some
>> people just want
>> some confidential files to be encrypted.
>
> I'm running full-LV encryption for /home (and some other directories) in
> my laptop, and the performance loss is nonexistant for me. Getting the
> bits off the rotating rust takes quite longer then decrypting them.
>
> After all, all the cores in that thing have to be good for something.
>
> (Core Duo, 1.6GHz)
>
I've been running full disk encryption via LUKS since F8 with a 6 year
old laptop. I don't see any noticeable performance loss.
You would with an Atom.