Wii external memory support via eSOL

[DarkNight_DS]

KruzeS said:

patjuan32 said:

Actually this is not a true statement. The external HD will be encrypted to the Users not the internal OS of the Wii. The games will load as if there is no encryption at all. Apple has done this with their OSX and internal HDs.

Actually, if you had paid closer attention to my post, you'd notice I mentioned a possible proprietary solution (e.g., a Wii harddrive), where stuff could be encripted in hardware with no performance loss. But unless encription is done in hardware, you will notice significant slowdowns, sorry. They'll load "as if" there is no encription at all, but they'll take 30secs to load instead of 3. There's a reason why copying games to and from SD cards is so damn slow, you know?

Plus, your OS X example only proves my point really. File Vault causes significant slowdowns, even more so if it's used with older computers like G3s (roughly equivalent to the Wii's CPU). Believe me, I know, I've tried.

 There is an excellent article that deals with this.  Basically the encryption standard Nintendo is using is highly advanced and easily implemented apparently.  From what the article stated, there is aprox a 1/2 second delay to handle the encryption during reads and writes.  You wouldn't even notice it.  Nintendo was applauded for their encryption scheme by the people who wrote the article.