Re: encrypted swap

Billy Harvey (Billy.Harvey@thrillseeker.net)
07 Aug 2001 10:48:44 -0400


> This is a should-if debate, in my opinion. That is, not if you can do it,
> but should you. Has anybody thought of the performance hit that you would
> take encrypting your swap?
>
> David Maynor

Insignificant I'd think. Disk is already thousands of times slower than
RAM. Ever needing to swap at all is a huge penalty - if the crypto adds
10% system access time to that (a long time for RAM and hardly anything
for disk), who'd notice?

Billy

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