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Most new drives can do encryption in hardware with zero performance penalty using either the ATA password or Opal for NVMe. For those doing software/CPU encrypt

by alien_ 9y ago

Most new drives can do encryption in hardware with zero performance penalty using either the ATA password or Opal for NVMe. For those doing software/CPU encryption on the swap, or any other partition for the matter is simply wasteful and often slower.

floatboth 9y ago
Isn't on-drive encryption considered untrustworthy?
- drvdevd 9y ago
  now i’m curious if anyone has tried to write their own encryption routines to any common hard drive firmware stacks
- adrianN 9y ago
  Depends on your threat model. If you want to protect your data when your laptop is stolen, on-drive encryption is probably more than sufficient.