System Encryption: BitLocker And TrueCrypt Compared
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Now that Intel offers hardware-based AES acceleration in a number of its mainstream processors, it's time to take a look at two of the most popular system encryption tools, BitLocker and TruCrypt, both of which are able to harness the hardware feature.
Test Setup And Settings
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System Hardware | |
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Hardware | Details |
Motherboard (Socket LGA1156) | Gigabyte P55A-UD7 (Rev. 1.0) Chipset: P55; BIOS: F3 (01/26/2010) |
CPU Intel | Intel Core i5-750 (45 nm, 2.66 GHz, 4 x 256KB L2 and 8MB L3 Cache, TDP 95W) |
RAM DDR3 (dual) | 2 x 2GB DDR3-1600 (OCZ OCZ3G2000LV4GK); DDR3-1333 8-8-8-24 1T |
Hard Drive | Western Digital VelociRaptor, 300GB (WD3000HLFS) 10,000 RPM, SATA/300, 16MB Cache |
Graphics | Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 GPU: Cypress (725 MHz); Graphics RAM: 1,024MB GDDR5 (2,000 MHz); Stream Processors: 1,440 |
Power Supply | PC Power & Cooling, Silencer 750EPS12V 750W |
System Software & Drivers | |
Operating System | Windows 7 Ultimate X64 Updated 2010-02-11 |
Drivers and Settings | |
Intel Chipset Drivers | Chipset Installation Utility Ver. 9.1.1.1025 |
ATI Graphics Drivers | Radeon Version 10.1 |
We used Gigabyte’s P55A-UD7, a Core i5-750 and Sapphire’s Radeon HD 5850 for this review.
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Application Benchmarks and Settings | |
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Benchmark | Details |
7-Zip | Version 9.1 beta LZMA2 Syntax "a -t7z -r -m0=LZMA2 -mx=5" |
Benchmark: 2010-THG-Workload | |
PCMark Vantage | Version 1.0.1.0 |
SYSmark Preview 2007 | Version 1.06 |
WinRAR | Version 3.92 Beta 1 RAR Syntax "a -r -m3" Benchmark: 2010-THG-Workload |
WinZip 14 | Version 14.0 Pro (8652) WinZip Commandline Version 3 ZIPX Syntax "-a -ez -p -r" Benchmark: 2010-THG-Workload |
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