Author: Harlan Lieberman-Berg Date: To: tails-dev Subject: [Tails-dev] Memory Erasure Development
Hello Tails developers,
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.)
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?
