Thank-you to everyone for their suggestions. I think I will go with an external eSATA drive. The P3 may not be fast enough, in which case I assume moving to a faster machine will be easier with an external than an internal drive. Please let me know if this is not the case!
I was looking on newegg, and found 1TB drives for less than $150. However, they are advertised to be eSATA compatible for DVRs. Are they also compatible as backup devices? I was looking at this one in particular: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822186175
Do you have any recommendations for a PCI 33MHz eSATA drive controller for external eSATA drives that works with Debian?
The take home is: avoid DES due to the short length of its key. 3DES is
secure (30+ years of use), but slow. Blowfish has a good reputation for
being fast, simple, and secure. If you're paranoid, think about AES, but
remember the recent advisories concerning AES keys >= 128-bits.
Disclaimer: I am *not* a cryptographic expert; I just know how to use
google. :-)
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> Stephen Joyce wrote at about 10:31:44 -0400 on Thursday, September 3, 2009:
> > Have you tried ssh -c blowfish?
> >
> > 3des is the default cipher for most ssh implementations and blowfish is
> > much faster than 3des.
>
> Thanks - I wasn't aware of that.
> What (if any) are the downsides to using 'blowfish' vs 3DES?
>
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