Hardy encryption details

**hyper_ch** · May 27th, 2008

yes

**michaelzap** · May 27th, 2008

Originally Posted by Steve413z

no, not much speed difforence, (on my core duo laptop), if it's an older machine, there might be a problem.

Decided to give it a try tonight, and indeed it seems just as fast as my previous unencrypted system. I still have to install and configure all of the apps and whatnot that I use, but it's nice to have a clean slate to scribble on. I'll be right back to work tomorrow morning with a brand new system under the hood.

**hyper_ch** · May 27th, 2008

you'll notice a difference when you start big read/write operations... but on a "normal" use, you hardly notice anything...

**michaelzap** · May 27th, 2008

Originally Posted by hyper_ch

you'll notice a difference when you start big read/write operations... but on a "normal" use, you hardly notice anything...

I mostly use an unencrypted scratch disk and network shares for big files anyway, so I think that other than the occasional video work I may never notice.

**michaelzap** · May 28th, 2008

Just reporting back for posterity:

The encrypted installation went swimmingly (it only took me a couple of hours to set up everything just the way I wanted after the installation finished). I've been using the new system for a few days now, and if anything it seems faster than my previous one (which was an upgrade from Gutsy to Hardy, with some additional random software that I no longer use like Tracker). Everything works perfectly and I've had zero complications.

Kudos to the Ubuntu dev team!

**hyper_ch** · May 29th, 2008

just remember to have an (encrypted) backup of that data somewhere.

If the harddisk fails at a critical point you cannot recover the encrypted files anymore.