Re: svnd vs softraid for encrypting /home et al

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 07:02:54PM -0500, Brad Tilley wrote: > ...Only /, > /usr and /var are clear text on my laptops and I'm OK with that. /home > is encrypted, swap in encrypted and /tmp is in memory. So I still have > some privacy. Did you forget /var/tmp? :)

Re: svnd vs softraid for encrypting /home et al

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:02 PM, umaxx wrote: > I have one advantage to mention: > I have done some comparison measurements (with bonnie benchmark) and > some self-written dd scripts under 4.5 - result: in my setup svnd seems to be > much faster. > I think this is maybe related to the 1. point be

Re: svnd vs softraid for encrypting /home et al

Hi, On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:35:45 -0400 Ted Unangst wrote: > softraid offers a few advantages. > > 1. Better crypto. The crypto algorithm currently used by softraid is > designed a little better. It could, in theory, also use hardware, > except the choice of algorithm actually prevents that.

Re: svnd vs softraid for encrypting /home et al

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > In message > Ted Unangst wrote (commenting on using svnd for encrypting /home on > an OpenBSD laptop) >> 2. People should be advised to use softraid crypto now. > > I'd like to ask

svnd vs softraid for encrypting /home et al

In message Ted Unangst wrote (commenting on using svnd for encrypting /home on an OpenBSD laptop) > 2. People should be advised to use softraid crypto now. I'd like to ask a more general question: what are the tradeoffs between svnd and sof