[CentOS] LUKS full disk Encryption question

Jorge Fábregas jorge.fabregas at gmail.com
Sun Jan 8 13:13:31 UTC 2012


On 01/07/2012 06:40 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> What will be the performance impact on my Celeron 1.73 GHz CPU and/or 
> hdd speed?

To further add to what has been said, check if your particular CPU
supports the AES-NI instruction set which should provide some
performance boost:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set

Of course, that is, if you choose to use the AES cipher (the default).

HTH,
Jorge



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