Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:56:47 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd encrypted hard disk? Message-ID: <20090114215647.68cf3b0e@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <ab52c4f40901140923k58245c1au2b4a2c89adde90bc@mail.gmail.com> References: <ab52c4f40901140923k58245c1au2b4a2c89adde90bc@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:23:09 -0500 Johann Hasselbach <jhass88@gmail.com> wrote: > I read the "encrypting disk partitions" section of the Handbook. What > is the preferred method nowdays, geli or gbde? Geli. Geli is more secure when used with real-world passphrases, supports hardware acceleration, and is faster, with or without out it. As I understand it, geli is also more reliable due to some operations being non-atomic in gdbe and atomic in geli.
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