Simon Josefsson wrote:
Aren't you comparing apples and oranges here? OpenSSL doesn't read input from /dev/zero, nor does it write the output to a block device.
I just did not expect such a big overhead for reading from / writing to block devices. The loop device with no encryption just passes through data but leads to a slowdown from 537 MB/s to 138 MB/s if set on top of the ramdisk. - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
