On 15/07/13 05:22, Bill Oliver wrote:
I have read, but do not perceive personally, that encrypted disks are a bit slower. But really, the reason that I don't encrypt entire disks is a fear of what happens if either I forget my password or there's a corruption issue. With an encrypted folder, then I lose that particular data. If I encrypt the entire disk, then either my entire home directory or my entire system is hosed -- depending on the partitioning. 99% of what I have on my computer I don't give a rat's ass about someone else seeing if I misplace my laptop. The few things that I do want protected by encryption -- work files, case data, etc. I can put in a folder and encrypt with cryptkeeper. If that gets fouled up, I still have my box...
I can vouch that an encrypted disk is slower - certainly it uses more CPU which adds some latency but on a reasonable processor it's still very usable. I think if you have a processor with AES (or AMD/VIA) equivalent, LUKS will use that too which significantly increase performance.
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