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Re: Performance and safety of AES256-'multi-key-v3' versus AES128-v1
Petersen wrote:
> I made a drive using this setup:
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> offset=8192 encryption=AES256 multi-key-v3
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> Now, throughput on my rather weak Linux-running pentium 200MHz fell when
> upgrading from plain v1-AES128. This is not surprising; however
> multikey-v3 also eats more processing power, am I right?
multikey v2 and v3 eat more processing power than v1.
AES256 eats more processing power than AES128.
> Is AES128 safe enough in your mind Jari; I see you use it in your
> examples in the README.
I use AES128 myself.
> Downgrading would give me better performance I suppose.
Yep.
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