Posted on Sunday, December 07 2008 @ 17:56 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
One of the exciting features that is being worked on for
Ubuntu 9.04 is encrypted home directories. What this means is that at
install-time for either the LiveCD or server installation (or at a point
later on when creating additional user accounts), the administrator can
opt to have the user's home directory encrypted. This is a step-down
from the Ubuntu 7.10 install-time encryption that would encrypt the
entire hard drive and just not the user's home directory, but alas, that
comes with performance consequences. At the request of Canonical, we
have carried out a few benchmarks showing what effect the Ubuntu 9.04
home encryption feature has on the system's overall performance.
Check it out
at Phoronix.
