Re: [Tails-dev] Memory Erasure Development

Hi Harlan,

Harlan Lieberman-Berg:
> I've been working on a project to develop a stripped-down multiboot2
> compatible kernel which can be used to quickly clear all the system
> memory on a computer. (The idea is to be able to kexec() into this
> kernel and have confidence that as little area needs to be preserved for
> the kernel structures as possible.)

Sounds great! Back in the days we had started experimenting with
a GRUB2 module to do that, so this definitely rings a bell :)

> One of the questions I'm running into right now is balancing between
> speed of erasure vs. requirements on the underlying hardware. I assume
> that Tails wants to continue to be able to run on 32-bit x86 hardware,
> even if there are performance costs to doing so; is that correct?

No: Tails 3.0 (based on Debian Stretch) will be x86_64 only.

Cheers,
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intrigeri