gcc -fdump-ada-spec => It requires a wrapper to be Ada not C written in Ada but anyway. /Per On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:46:55 -0700 (PDT) Alan Jump wrote: > On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 12:27:30 AM UTC-7, > Stefan...@uni-weimar.de wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Randy Brukardt wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > ------ I love the taste of Cryptanalysis in the morning! > > ------ > > One final thought which goes directly back to the OP's questions. > > I'd love to see an Ada binding for SFTP or a similar > relatively-secure transfer protocol released to an open-source > repository. It would certainly relieve in-house developers from > having to come up with their own implementations, and by placing such > in an open-source repository, it would invite inspection from outside > which may reveal dangerous flaws prior to widespread deployment. > > Even though data transfers may be monitored, and with sufficient > effort the contents of the packets extracted, there's absolutely > nothing that says one can't implement one or more additional > encryption layers prior to transmission. Think "belt and suspenders". > Or, in a more relevant comparison, encrypting an email using GPG, > Enigma, one-time pad, or whatever, then sending it via an encrypted > VPN tunnel. > > Just my 2p worth. Save up the change for a pint. > > - - > 73 de N5ILN > Alan