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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,60930a8e43781f3f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-16 16:07:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newshub.sdsu.edu!west.cox.net!cox.net!p02!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D0D1A11.20204@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada and cryptography References: <994828d9.0206161145.cbf4b08@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 23:07:55 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1024268875 68.12.51.201 (Sun, 16 Jun 2002 19:07:55 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 19:07:55 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26103 Date: 2002-06-16T23:07:55+00:00 List-Id: 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.