India: Fastest Algorithm for Disk Encryption

An Indian scientist from the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata has developed the fastest method to encrypt the hard disk of a computer. Encrypting helps in keeping the data on hard disk secure even from an attack by hackers. From a practical point of view, the requirement is actually to achieve both speed and security. Otherwise, encryption and decryption may take so much time that software which runs on computer become unacceptably slow. And, in the current state of the art, this work provides the fastest known algorithm for disk encryption. The new algorithm encrypts the data 30-40 percent faster than the previous ones.

Source: Siliconindia, 15^th September 2009