Am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 14:31 schrieb ext Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > > What about the performance, is it too different from plain partition > > usage? > > I never noticed the difference when I was using aes-loop on a 2GHz > laptop. That said, it will depend on the algorithm you choose and the CPU > you have available. Also, I /think/ aes-loop was supposed to be faster > than dm-crypt, but I believe the kernel's implementation of aes (and > maybe other ciphers) has gotten faster since the last benchmarks I saw.
That's especially true on x86 where aes is implemented in assembly. Due to
this it is even faster than blowfish. On non-x86 systems (where aes is
coded in C), blowfish is said to be faster.
Bye...
Dirk
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