This whole encryption thread reminded me of a recent xkcd: http://xkcd.com/538/
:-) --y On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Moish wrote: > Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > Orr Dunkelman wrote: > >> The question is whether your swap partition is encrypted or not. > >> > >> In case it is not - you are probably writing too many secrets to the > >> hard disk. > >> > >> If it is - well, then I can understand why the machine is slow. > > > > It is encrypted, but swap is hardly used on my machine. > > > > And I didn't say my machine was slow. I said that having my entire home > > dir encrypted made compilations slow. > > > >> Besides that, knowing about speeds of encryption and hard drives, it > >> seems that if you use good ciphers, there should be no real > >> performance lose (I know that there is such, but I never figured out > >> why). > > > > Maybe because both compilation and encryption are CPU bound? > > > > Shachar > > If you are really into that, work with VM and encrypt/decrypt the > directory containing its files. ( Just an example, YMMV ) > VM is pretty fast by now, even on desktop machines. > > Moish > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Yuval Hager [T] +972-77-341-4155 [...@] yu...@avramzon.net
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