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ironhead65, You can do 1 of 2 things. You can either lookup the CPU your system is using ('Win+R', type 'msinfo32.exe', hit Enter - Look for the field named "Processor") and then google your CPU (if its intel, open the intel product information page) and see if its supports the instruction "AES-NI". Or, you can download an app such as CPU-Z ( http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html ) which will provide a list of instructions your processor supports. I would suggest downloading the portable version (provides a zip with a simple exe that you run instead of installing a whole application package). You can download the portable version (includes 32-bit and 64-bit executables) directly here: http://www.cpuid.com/downloads/cpu-z/cpu-z_1.80-en.zip . Once you open the application, you will see a field labeled "Instructions". As long as "AES" appears as 1 of the items in that list, it means your CPU supports the instruction that is needed.

Wonderful! That is exactly the information I was looking for. Thanks Christopher!

I'm testing out CloudDrive and so far it seems really great, but I just have a quick question. Since all data upload to cloud providers is "obfuscated", even when not encrypting the cloud drive, does that mean it is always being encrypted anyways (but instead of using a private key, it is instead using a public non-secret key)? The reason I'm asking, is I want to know if there is any overhead/performance difference when using an encrypted cloud drive vs using an unencrypted cloud drive. For data that I do not care about being particularly secure, I'm wondering if there is any benefit to using an unencrypted cloud drive. If it being encrypted regardless and there is going to be an equal amount of overhead either way, I will just go ahead and make all of my cloud drives encrypted. Thank you in advance!