Re: GRUB LUKS support is slow?

[Mark H Weaver]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> I have an encrypted root.  When GRUB asks me for my passphrase, it takes
> 5–10 seconds after I hit enter before it displays the menu; then, once
> I’ve selected an entry, it takes another 5 seconds or so to boot.
>
> It’s always been this way for me (that’s on UEFI), but I’m sufficiently
> annoyed to write this message today.  :-)
>
> Are others experiencing this as well?  Any hints?

I also use a LUKS-encrypted root partition, and the same thing happens
to me.  I would guess that the cryptographic operations in GRUB are not
well optimized, but I haven't looked closely.

      Mark