Re:Encryption is good for security, bad for perfor (Score 1)

You're "mostly" right.. but, dont forget, there's a difference between throughput and latency... Imagine your garden hose. a 200 foot hose may not slow down the water, and you're still getting the THROUGHPUT that you need (gallons per minute), but the water that comes out of the sprinkler head end may come out 20 seconds after it went into the other end of the hose (20 second latency)... For some jobs, with sequential read/write, throughput may be all you need (and may be where the 1% rating comes from on the original poster's PGP stat) but for something that needs to stop and start, and/or have quick access to random data, waiting for a decryption/encryption engine isn't a good fit, even if it is hardware. -Steve