From: Isaac Dupree <id@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] read --echo=[yes|no|wildcard]
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:00:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47AF57DF.1000306@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080210193916.GA22265@thorin>
Robert Millan wrote:
> 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.
yeah. probably involves thinking about GRUB's allocation and
deallocation mechanisms, which I don't know anything about and don't
have time to investigate :-/
-Isaac
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-10 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-10 13:16 [PATCH] read --echo=[yes|no|wildcard] Robert Millan
2008-02-10 13:56 ` Isaac Dupree
2008-02-10 15:22 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-10 16:41 ` Isaac Dupree
2008-02-10 17:00 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-10 18:00 ` Isaac Dupree
2008-02-10 19:39 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-10 20:00 ` Isaac Dupree [this message]
2008-02-10 20:47 ` [PATCH] erase variable data on user unset Robert Millan
2008-02-10 21:00 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-10 21:31 ` Isaac Dupree
2008-02-10 21:38 ` Isaac Dupree
2008-02-10 21:53 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-10 20:16 ` [PATCH] read --echo=[yes|no|wildcard] Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-02-10 20:49 ` Robert Millan
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