[FDE] MultiCore Comparisons

[Hiers, Richard]

I have been using FREE Compusec with their GA Lite product (which allows
me to encrypt at 256 rather than the default 128) for a few months now.
I have installed it on several platforms (old and new hardware) and have
noticed hardly any noticeable performance hit.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: fde-bounces at www.xml-dev.com [mailto:fde-bounces at www.xml-dev.com]
On Behalf Of catchall at princesshouse.co.uk
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 7:20 AM
To: fde at www.xml-dev.com
Subject: [FDE] MultiCore Comparisons

Dear Sirs,

I've been reading with interest your site about the full disk
encryption suites.

The one major drawback that I can see all software based solutions is
the overhead on the CPU.

Given that the trend now is heading for multicore CPUs I was
wondering if any of your subscribers has any information regarding
the performance of these software solutions on QUAD/DUAL core intel
cpus.

I would be interested to know if anyone has tried these suites on
quad core CPUs. I rather suspect that seeing as the operating systems
[and most likely the software packages as well] are not coded for
multicore environments that the performance overhead would still be
quite substantial.

Anyway, I hope you can help me get a better understanding.

Sincerely.

James


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