Cryptsetup benchmarks for a Dell 17r.
For no good reason today I decided to run some cryptsetup benchmarks on Windbringer. The only really significant change to the systemware configuration is that Windbringer is now running Linux kernel version 3.9.4-1-ARCH.
[drwho@windbringer ~]$ cryptsetup benchmark
# Tests are approximate using memory only (no storage IO).
PBKDF2-sha1 407688 iterations per second
PBKDF2-sha256 222155 iterations per second
PBKDF2-sha512 144511 iterations per second
PBKDF2-ripemd160 334367 iterations per second
PBKDF2-whirlpool 187245 iterations per second
# Algorithm | Key | Encryption | Decryption
aes-cbc 128b 563.0 MiB/s 1862.0 MiB/s
serpent-cbc 128b 67.7 …Read more...