On 05/25/2012 04:40 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > 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 > > > Thanks Roberto. Yes, I have AES-NI in my i7 cpu. . -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
