data security

[Shachar Shemesh]

Orr Dunkelman wrote:
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> The question is whether your swap partition is encrypted or not.
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> In case it is not - you are probably writing too many secrets to the hard disk.
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> If it is - well, then I can understand why the machine is slow.
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It is encrypted, but swap is hardly used on my machine.

And I didn't say my machine was slow. I said that having my entire home 
dir encrypted made compilations slow.
> Besides that, knowing about speeds of encryption and hard drives, it
> seems that if you use good ciphers, there should be no real
> performance lose  (I know that there is such, but I never figured out
> why).
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Maybe because both compilation and encryption are CPU bound?

Shachar