Re: Encrypting drive

2007-07-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 02 July 2007 11:35, Anders Breindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In servers, you might want to trust physical security, since >> whole-system encryption incurs a performance degradation. (However, on a >> reasonably recent system, you still w

Re: Encrypting drive

2007-07-09 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 09 July 2007 22:23, Anders Breindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Where "reasonably fast" means faster than a 3GHz P4. A 3GHz P4 system I > > was working on recently appeared to be limited to 4MB/s, if it wasn't for > > the fact that the machine is about to be decommissioned then I wou

Re: Encrypting drive

2007-07-09 Thread Anders Breindahl
On 200707091624, Russell Coker wrote: > On Monday 02 July 2007 11:35, Anders Breindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (However, on a reasonably recent system, you still will be > > bottlenecked by Fast Ethernet at 100Mb/s). > > Where "reasonably fast" means faster than a 3GHz P4. A 3GHz P4 system

Re: Encrypting drive

2007-07-09 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 04:24:30PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: On Monday 02 July 2007 11:35, Anders Breindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In servers, you might want to trust physical security, since whole-system encryption incurs a performance degradation. (However, on a reasonably recent system,

Re: Encrypting drive

2007-07-09 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 02 July 2007 11:35, Anders Breindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In servers, you might want to trust physical security, since > whole-system encryption incurs a performance degradation. (However, on a > reasonably recent system, you still will be bottlenecked by Fast > Ethernet at 100Mb/

Re: Encrypting drive

2007-07-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Vladimir Strycek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > im curious, i heard that its possible to encrypt drives in debian or > any linux. But how does it work ? i meen do i have to enter password > all the time when i wanna to boot server ? or its just for some > special partition ? > > Any pra

Re: Encrypting drive

2007-07-01 Thread Anders Breindahl
On 200707012022, Vladimir Strycek wrote: > im curious, i heard that its possible to encrypt drives in debian or any > linux. But how does it work ? i meen do i have to enter password all the > time when i wanna to boot server ? or its just for some special partition ? It depends. You can do whol

Re: Encrypting drive

2007-07-01 Thread Vladimir Strycek
Frank Draeger wrote / napísal(a): im curious, i heard that its possible to encrypt drives in debian or any linux. But how does it work ? i meen do i have to enter password all the time when i wanna to boot server ? or its just for some special partition ? Hi, there are a lot of things yo

RE: Encrypting drive

2007-07-01 Thread Frank Draeger
> im curious, i heard that its possible to encrypt drives in debian > or any > linux. But how does it work ? i meen do i have to enter password > all the > time when i wanna to boot server ? or its just for some special > partition ? Hi, there are a lot of things you can encrypt under linux os. Y

Encrypting drive

2007-07-01 Thread Vladimir Strycek
Hi all, im curious, i heard that its possible to encrypt drives in debian or any linux. But how does it work ? i meen do i have to enter password all the time when i wanna to boot server ? or its just for some special partition ? Any practice examples ? Thanks. Best regards Vladimir -- To