From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb57f,9a441a9594e85d08 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb57f,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,9a441a9594e85d08 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Bignum modular types in Ada95 Date: 1998/01/28 Message-ID: <1998Jan28.073828.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 319956132 References: <34CE568C.55D7E23D@cl.cam.ac.uk> <01bd2b92$b639c1e0$64fc82c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com> Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org X-Trace: news.decus.org 885991117 22000 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2] Organization: LJK Software Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,sci.crypt Date: 1998-01-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <01bd2b92$b639c1e0$64fc82c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com>, "Nick Roberts" 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 > Nick Roberts ================================================ > Croydon, UK ================= > ========== > Proprietor, ThoughtWing Software ====== > Independent Software Development Consultant ==== > Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com === > Voicemail & Fax +44 181-405 1124 === > > I live not in myself, but I become > Portion of that around me; and to me > High mountains are a feeling, but the hum > Of human cities torture. > -- Byron [Childe Harold] > > > Markus Kuhn 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: >