Hi, if I use an encryption program such as truecrypt or folderlock, and encrypt the firefox portable folder in my USB drive, will firefox portable run slower?
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on most even vaguely modern hardware, on-the-fly encryption can process data at a rate that is orders of magnitude faster than the transfer rate to the flash drive, which means that the actual write-to-drive times will still be the bottleneck to performance.
In case you didn't understand what he just said, most modern hardware will encrypt/decrypt faster then it can communicate with your pc, so no.
However, the OP seemed to ask for a software solution, which is an entirely different story. I have heard it will not slow things down, BUT I never used it myself.
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thanks for clarifying what I was saying, but what I meant was...
Most current hardware, such as the three year old laptop I am sat using to type this, is more than capable of running a software encryption solution with no perceptible loss of performance.
For example, this laptop has a Pentium 4 Mobile 2GHz processor (not core2 or anything, it predates all that), and it run s truecrypt with the entire system drive encrypted, with no visible change in performance.
Also, in testing, for normal Truecrypt containers, it can encrypt more than thirty times faster than my Sandisk Cruzer Titanium flash drive can write, so no, I see absoloutely no slowdown whatsoever due to the fact that I use truecrypt on my flash drive to protect my private data
But my apologies for the somewhat technical phrasing of my first reply, it was before my first coffee of the day