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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.140.250.69 with SMTP id v66mr23872331qhc.22.1458069025881; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:10:25 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.19.129 with SMTP id f1mr334603obe.20.1458069025795; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:10:25 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!w104no6892818qge.1!news-out.google.com!k1ni19698igd.0!nntp.google.com!nt3no1958128igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:10:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1a8948dd-e7a0-48d2-b05d-b0165ee49881@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=169.1.165.8; posting-account=p-xPhAkAAADjHQWEO7sFME2XBdF1P_2H NNTP-Posting-Host: 169.1.165.8 References: <5011d79c-aaad-464e-a68e-c31a2738a820@googlegroups.com> <1a8948dd-e7a0-48d2-b05d-b0165ee49881@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Ada for the TLS/SSL problem? From: Peter Brooks Injection-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 19:10:25 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:29787 Date: 2016-03-15T12:10:25-07:00 List-Id: On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 21:00:21 UTC+2, Shark8 wrote: > It is a place for Ada to shine, certainly -- I had started an implementation of TLS but was stymied when I came to the X.509 (IIRC [security certificates]) requirement. > > I thin there was someone here on comp.lang.ada who was doing a SPARK implementation of ASN.1's OID which, IIRC, is used in X.509 -- so we might actually be closer than anyone really realizes. That sounds very good.