On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:38 AM, anonym <ano...@lavabit.com> wrote: > This won't work. Even with PAE, processes cannot have more than 4 GB of > memory (after all, pointers are still 32 bit = 4 GB). > > [...] > > It's seems we still have to wait for Ague's wipe_memory GRUB module.
You can stop suffering from the NIH syndrome, and use the current approach in Liberté (choosing the kexec'ed kernel type according to the CPU type + memtest), or use the old memwipe approach (sequential chain of processes with each one clearing a reasonable amount of RAM). I normally ignore endless discussions about trivial issues on this mailing list, but I just can't watch someone who for once apparently actually knows programming waste his time on such a useless endeavor. In the end, you will go back to kernel-based approach, because too many users will have issues with something custom like GRUB / MemTest modules, which may have issues with obscure hardware, not see the same memory that the kernel sees, will not be portable to non-x86 / non-BIOS architectures, etc. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
