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From: Koen Martens <in+usenet@metro.cx>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Disk encryption
Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 08:08:36 +0200
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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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