Re: Disk encryption

Den 2025-05-17 kl. 04:03, skrev CrudeSausage:

I'm just curious as to how many Linux users here bother with it. I have opal2 encryption on my storage but find the process of enabling it on Linux way too complicated to bother, and I know that software encryption will slow down the storage heavily. Yes, it's good for security, but I'm wondering if anyone actually uses it and why.

Yes, I use it. It was easy to set up, just a checkbox in the installer and entering the passphrase. I do it because I don't want my data to be readable when someone nicks my laptop / computer. The performance impact is hardly noticeable, if at all. It's all hardware accelerated anyway on any modern CPU, and more often than not the hard drive is the bottle neck, not the encryption.
Cheers,
Koen
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