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| From: | Isaac Dupree |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] read --echo=[yes|no|wildcard] |
| Date: | Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:00:31 -0500 |
| User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) |
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
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