On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 10:45:34 +0530, Dhiman, Gaurav wrote: > > I don't think the kernel (OS) keeps the things in encrypted form on HDD. > It writes without encrypting it. > If it writes the things in encrypted form as you said, then it's a lot > of overhead for each block encryption and decryption. I think it's not > at all like that. HDD device driver does not encrypt or decrypt before > writing reading from HDD. No, it's not the HDD driver. It's the crypto loopback, that does the encryption. Of course, the crypto loopback is there only if you install it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx>
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