Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:49:15 -0600 From: "Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T" <jeffh@dundeemt.com> To: VeeJay <maanjee@gmail.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Password Security Message-ID: <5aaed53f0611221549o4e73ac0er421c21b3cabc665e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2cd0a0da0611220653g3bafe699l2ccb36da500e6089@mail.gmail.com> References: <2cd0a0da0611211941iae07787q3f433fb2c8ab1f22@mail.gmail.com> <20061121225903.fswba3d1uss8wgos@secure.rem1tech.com> <5aaed53f0611212245v2f194531q569ab17a9bac1d6e@mail.gmail.com> <2cd0a0da0611220549i1fe5d6dekc51e0aa0eda13ec2@mail.gmail.com> <5aaed53f0611220645n7b16fa53x81232f44d5197013@mail.gmail.com> <2cd0a0da0611220653g3bafe699l2ccb36da500e6089@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/22/06, VeeJay <maanjee@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Jeff... > > But does this encryption affects on Disk Speed or Performance for Data > Access/Read/Write? > > > On 11/22/06, Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T <jeffh@dundeemt.com> wrote: > > Although I haven't used either, gbde and geli are possible methods. > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html > > As I stated before, I haven't used either so I am in no way an authoritative source, but in general anytime you do additional processing in the data channel, some penalty is going to be incurred. I am sure there are things that can be done to mitigate this penalty to a degree (i.e. offloading encryption operations to an add-in card) but only you can be the judge if the trade off is a good one. -Jeff
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