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apropos man
Sep 5, 2016

You get a hundred and forty one thousand years and you're out in eight!
Depends on the area you're in or whether you get robbed by someone that knows you/knows you're on holiday if your desktop were to be robbed.

And also I'd say it's fine to encrypt all your drives purely from preventing unauthorised users from browsing your poo poo, whilst if the police want a look then fine, go ahead.

With such low overheads on CPUs with AES-NI it's a no brainer for me.

I also like the fact that if I want to use a drive in a different machine for another purpose or lend/give it to someone I just quickly delete the encryption header and it's immediately full of random, unreadable data.

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apropos man
Sep 5, 2016

You get a hundred and forty one thousand years and you're out in eight!
It's in most modern CPU's. Even the lower power ones now.

Advanced Encryption Standard encoding/decoding is included on the CPU itself. It enables you to use an encrypted disk in real time with hardly any performance hit on the CPU.

apropos man
Sep 5, 2016

You get a hundred and forty one thousand years and you're out in eight!
Is that the synopsis for a 2018 spin on the crummy 1990's hacker movie?

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