From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Bignum modular types in Ada95
Date: 1998/01/28
Date: 1998-01-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1998Jan28.073828.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bd2b92$b639c1e0$64fc82c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com
In article <01bd2b92$b639c1e0$64fc82c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com>, "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com> writes:
> The message from this post for compiler writers is crystal clear!
Message being that a full implementation could result in two sales,
one to each of the major toolkit vendors who currently program in C
and distribute their toolkits in object code format ?
I would be quite happy if my crypto toolkit vendor switched to Ada.
While you are at it, please arrange for world peace and an end to
global warming.
Larry Kilgallen
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> Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote in article
> <34CE568C.55D7E23D@cl.cam.ac.uk>...
>> One of the especially nice things about Ada seem to be the modular
>> types. Many of the calculations in asymmetric cryptography are done
>> over the integers modulo N, where N is a huge number (typically
>> 1024 bits long or more).
> [...]
>> Which Ada95 compilers do support 1024-bit integers today and can
>> do an efficient modular exponentiation over them?
>
>> Markus G. Kuhn, Security Group, Computer Lab, Cambridge University, UK
>> email: mkuhn at acm.org, home page: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-01-28 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-27 0:00 Bignum modular types in Ada95 Markus Kuhn
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
[not found] ` <EnIIvn.3zr@world.std.com>
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Mats Weber
[not found] ` <EnKEtu.KGp@world.std.com>
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-02 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1998-02-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-03 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-07 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Dmitriy Anisimkov
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