Tag: Encryption

  • Revised Raspberry Pi TrueCrypt Benchmark

    Revised March 31, 2013 with updated benchmarking approach that uses actual access to the mounted volume. New results show no appreciable sensitivity to hash, which is as expected. The numbers are for encryption only (write). I have not pursued read. Hash Algorithm Encryption Algorithm Rate (MB/s) SHA-512 Twofish 2.8 Whirlpool Twofish 2.8 RIPEMD-160 Twofish 2.8…

  • Raspberry Pi TrueCrypt Benchmark

    Note: The results in this post have been improved with more accurate values at Revised Raspberry Pi TrueCrypt Benchmark. I recently acquired a Raspberry Pi model B 512 MB from the excellent people at Adafruit. I am interested in it as a small computer for basic text processing, and am curious about its performance in…