From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JOI3R-00013k-PT for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:41:33 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOI3Q-00012O-Ar for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:41:32 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOI3P-000114-IW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:41:31 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOI3P-00010s-EQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:41:31 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JOI3P-0007ER-9Z for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:41:31 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JOI3K-0003Zd-1s for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:41:30 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JOI1E-0005ow-K2 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:39:16 +0100 Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:39:16 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080210193916.GA22265@thorin> References: <20080210131656.GA4168@thorin> <47AF0282.4000307@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> <20080210152226.GB7404@thorin> <47AF293F.8070804@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> <20080210170026.GA12941@thorin> <47AF3BD2.6060305@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <47AF3BD2.6060305@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH] read --echo=[yes|no|wildcard] X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:41:32 -0000 On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 01:00:50PM -0500, Isaac Dupree wrote: > anyway if a hash is used that takes (by design) around one second on the > machine (e.g. sha256 repeated thousands? millions? of times), then I > suppose the time taken to erase the memory used by GRUB would be trivial > in comparison, assuming(rightly or wrongly) a good implementation... The problem is not time, it's just to find the right way to do it. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)