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No, this is no longer the case. Encryption these days only adds 1-2% extra load. Regardless, even if the load was higher like it use to be before current mode
by alberth 15y ago
No, this is no longer the case.
Encryption these days only adds 1-2% extra load.
Regardless, even if the load was higher like it use to be before current modern hardware, you are still essentially informing your customers that "speed is more important than securing their data" - which is a terrible approach to take.
TL;DR: If you are given the privilege to maintain a customer data, it's your obligation and responsibility to do so with the most care possible.
- daleharvey 15y agodid you reply to the wrong comment? my speed mentioned nothing about speed. Tarsnap can treat data opaquely and have the client encrypt / decrypt it, most web applications that arent just moving data around need to be able to access its contents to be able to work.
- tlb 15y agoThe problem isn't the cycles of encryption, it's that the data architecture has to be designed differently, and optimizations like caching can't be used as much. Document search is especially difficult on encrypted documents.