Re: [Devil-linux-develop] vacation

[Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...>]

Dean Nedelman wrote on 29.11.2003 22:31 MET:
>>[...]
>>
>>btw, i'm interested in this patch:
>>
>>http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/loop-AES.README
>>
>>it provides a secure loopback system, so you could use the aes modules
> 
> from
> 
>>kernel to have an encrypted loop device. it is backwards compatible with
>>the classic loop command.
>>[...]
>>
>>anyone/someone/everyone against? agree? opinions?
> 
> 
> I would vote against the idea.
> 
> While AES is a very good encryption system, I would have to reasons against
> integrating it into DL (for the loopback):
> o Extra CPU power would be required to handle the AES decryption - and that
> is on top of the CPU power required to handle the decompression that is
> already required!  Remember - a lot of people run DL on some very old (and
> slow) processors.

When you don't configure it to be used it takes 0% of your CPU.
I'm neutral as I think I will never need it but others might.

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MfG / Regards
Friedrich Lobenstock
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Friedrich Lobenstock                       Linux Services Lobenstock
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