data security

[Moish]

Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Orr Dunkelman wrote:
>>
>>
>> The question is whether your swap partition is encrypted or not.
>>
>> In case it is not - you are probably writing too many secrets to the 
>> hard disk.
>>
>> If it is - well, then I can understand why the machine is slow.
>>   
> 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).
>>   
> Maybe because both compilation and encryption are CPU bound?
> 
> Shachar

If you are really into that, work with VM and encrypt/decrypt the
directory containing its files. ( Just an example, YMMV )
VM is pretty fast by now, even on desktop machines.

Moish