The Cost Of Home Directory Encryption & LUKS Full Disk Encryption On Ubuntu 18.04

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The Cost Of Home Directory Encryption & LUKS Full Disk Encryption On Ubuntu 18.04: With many of you likely upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS upon release and the recommendation to use disk encryption as important as ever on any important system especially laptops/ultrabooks, here are some fresh benchmarks using a development snapshot of Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic Beaver" and looking at the current performance overhead of using the current "home directory encryption" and "full disk encryption" options available to Ubuntu Linux users.