Re: AES-NI useful?

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Chris Smart wrote:
> Anyone know how useful AES-NI are in new Intel CPUs for encrypting
> one's hard drive? Is it well supported in the kernel, and does the
> hardware implementation make a lot of difference (I'm guessing so, as
> that's the point, but can't find any specific references..)

Yes, the latest kernel supports it. Fedora 13 & 14 support it. It should 
reduce the overhead of LUKS drive encryption to near nil from my 
understanding.
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