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Since most of my life exists in one way or another on my hard disk, I consider it to be an absolute must to encrypt the drives. I’m using PGP Whole Disk Encryp
by patrik 16y ago
Since most of my life exists in one way or another on my hard disk, I consider it to be an absolute must to encrypt the drives.
I’m using PGP Whole Disk Encryption http://www.pgp.com/products/wholediskencryption/index.html http://www.pgp.com/products/wholediskencryption/index.html, which works perfectly. I prefer it over OS X’s FileVault feature since it just protects everything and is completely transparent to the system and the user.
And, btw, I’m still hoping for a mobile OS besides BlackBerry’s that provides a reasonable secure encryption option.
- dotBen 16y agoI'm weighing up going down this route - what kind of performance hit do you experience form using PGP WDE on your Mac? Thanks
- DEinspanjer 16y agoFrankly, I've never noticed it being there other than when I do some extremely IO expensive operations like data processing. When I do that on my MPB though, I'm just testing it. That work belongs on a server anyway if you want it to be fast.
- patrik 16y agoDuring normal use, the performance degradation is barely noticeable, it _feels_ like 10%–15%. Things become a bit more critical when working with larger files or during heavy I/O. One thing to consider, however, are SSDs. To my knowledge, encrypted data is only written to blocks that already contain random data. You therefore might want to look for disks whose performance does not degrade that much when free blocks are no longer available.
- nonane 16y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong, but it looks like PGP Whole Disk Encryption is the only product on the that supports whole-disk encryption for OS X. TrueCrypt on OS X and FileVault can only encrypt directory trees.