Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 00:38:45 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: "Andrew J. Korty" <ajk@iu.edu>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cryptographic dump(8) Message-ID: <200005050638.AAA47015@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 May 2000 08:30:43 %2B1000." <00May5.083045est.115878@border.alcanet.com.au> References: <00May5.083045est.115878@border.alcanet.com.au> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005031019190.21805-100000@kobayashi.uits.iupui.edu>
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In message <00May5.083045est.115878@border.alcanet.com.au> Peter Jeremy writes: : BTW, unless you're using H/W encryption, 3DES is quite slow - and will : probably be the limiting factor in your dump/restore speed. This may : or may not be an issue. If it is, you might like to look at : alternative algorithms. How slow is quite slow? My dumps rarely run faster than a few hundered kbps (usually about 150). Even though my tape drive can go faster than that. My fs has too many small files for dump to get good performance out of. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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