Re: Free cryptographic library for Ada?

[Jano <nono@unizar.es>]

Peter C. Chapin dice...
> In article <MPG.1a87491e48fe3dd59896a8@news.able.es>, nono@unizar.es 
> says...
> 
> > It's quite old but I've been using its SHA1 and Tiger implementation 
> > without any problem. It has other digital signatures as well:
> > 
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/adacf/
> 
> Yes, I found ACF as well. It does have hash functions, but digital 
> signatures also require public key cryptography (or its moral 
> equivalent). Unless I'm missing something significant, it doesn't look 
> to me like ACF supports such things.

Ah, my bad, I had interpreted digital signatures as digital 
fingerprints. No, I don't think that ACF have anything else that hashing 
calculations.

> Is ACF dead, BTW? It looks like it has the potential of being a nice 
> project. Should it prove necessary for me to implement digital 
> signatures myself I might be interested in contributing the result to 
> the open source community and ACF seems like one option for that. I 
> wrote to the administrator of the project, but so far I have not gotten 
> a reply.

I wrote him some months ago. He took some time to answer (a couple of 
weeks?) but he is out there, somewhere, at least.