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On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, David Nielsen wrote: |
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> 1) what's the speed penalties involved ? |
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> I only have a 500Mhz Celeron chip in my laptop so I'm kinda worried it |
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> will send GNOME down the drain to encrypt the entire FS. |
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I have an 800Mhz PentiumIII-mobile processor in my Vaio. I've been |
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running an encrypted root FS (with key on a 16MB USB drive) for serveral |
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months now and have noticed no performance hits. From my experience, if |
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you are doing a large grep or find, the CPU hits 2-3% higher than it |
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normally would. |
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> 2) Would this be applicable to encrypting specific partitions - since |
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> I've been looking at encrypting my /home on my desktop as well - most |
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> because I can though. |
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Sure, any partition can be mounted via loopback and encrypted. It's |
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super-easy to do with non-root filesystems too, since you don't have to |
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worry about initrd issues. You just unmount it, setup the encrypted |
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loop, encrypt with dd, and mount the encrypted loop where the |
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non-encrypted FS used to be. |
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> - David |
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> On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 11:53, mike@××××.org wrote: |
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> > I just got an encrypted root filesystem working on my iBook (based on Linux |
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> > 2.6.0-testX and util-linux 2.12). I hope to clean up my initrd sources and |
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> > publish them in mid-September. If anyone is interested in this, please let me |
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> > know. |
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> > Mike |
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