From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Ada and cryptography
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 23:07:55 GMT
Date: 2002-06-16T23:07:55+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D0D1A11.20204@telepath.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 994828d9.0206161145.cbf4b08@posting.google.com
Tuomas P wrote:
> Is (can?) Ada being used in cryptographic applications? If it is,
> could someone point me out to webpages that have cryptographic code in
> Ada?
The LMD/KP encryption key generation, protection and maintenence system
that the US armed forces use was written in Ada. You can't exactly
download its sources over the web though. :-)
I believe there are litterally thousands of these systems being used
"out in the field" (more likely, in the mountains) right now.
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2002-06-16 19:45 Ada and cryptography Tuomas P
2002-06-16 20:20 ` David Marceau
2002-06-16 23:07 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2002-06-17 2:07 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-17 19:47 ` Gisle Sælensminde
2002-06-17 7:23 ` Florian Weimer
2002-06-17 8:31 ` Antonio Duran
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2002-06-17 13:53 Mike Brenner
2002-06-17 23:15 ` David Marceau
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