On 07/28/2011 01:18 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > - Between the above tests, I shut down the machine (to flush filesystem > cache). echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches does the same in more controlled way > - my system kernel: 2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686 Can you use something more recent? There were huge changes. The same for userspace. BTW do you know that TC7 uses dm-crypt as backend? So with the same mode and alignemnt you should get the same results (except chained ciphers in TC). > As you can see, there's almost a 4 minute difference. I was expecting > LUKS to be faster (as dm-crypt is a kernel module) and TrueCrypt runs > mainly in user space isn't it? Do you think the cipher operation modes > (XTS vs CBC) played a role in this difference? Have any of you performed > a similar test? Perhaps because you tested different modes... Use the same mode in cryptsetup cryptstup luksFormat -c aes-xts-plain64 -s 512 ... I would really wonder if speed differs, TC7 uses dmsetup to configure dm-crypt mapping on Linux :-) It uses userspace (and FUSE) only for old containers and some magic for hidden container. Milan _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
