GELI encryption - CPU requirements?

[Dan Naumov]

It seems that GELI already defaults to AES-128. What documentation
should I be looking into to see how different sector size options
affect effective available disk space and performance?

- Dan Naumov



On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Alaksiej C <ac at belngo.info> wrote:
> Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org>:
>> Except if you're really paranoid, you might want to relax your security
>> requirements and use aes-128 without essentially reducing your practical
>> security.
>
>
> It's true.
>
> Also, sector size option (-s) could help you. Larger its value -
> faster ciphering, for the price of less optimal disk space usage, of
> course.
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