Re: Ada and cryptography

[antonio_duran@hotmail.com (Antonio Duran)]

tuo_pe@yahoo.com (Tuomas P) wrote in message news:<994828d9.0206161145.cbf4b08@posting.google.com>...
> Hi all!
> 
> Is (can?) Ada being used in cryptographic applications? If it is,
> could someone point me out to webpages that have cryptographic code in
> Ada?
> 
> I have been reading Markus Kuhn's article on Ada95 ("Information for
> New Ada95 Programmers") and I have the impression that Ada might do
> well in that area (too!).
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> Tuomas

Yes it can. I'm trying to implement some cryptographic algorithms in
Ada95 and you can see that work in:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/adacf

I'm afraid I couldn't dedicate enough time to complete the work. What
you can find there is an implementation of some of the most important
cryptographic hash (message digest) algorithms (MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA-1,
RIPEMD-128, RIPEMD-160, TIGER, and HAVAL) and the test vectors for
these algorithms.

I'm currently working on a multiprecission natural number arithmetic
package, cryptographic pseudorandom number generators (BBS) and some
of the most important symmetric key ciphers (DES, 3-Way, Blowfish, and
others). If you want the source code I could send you but be aware
that is not production quality code (at least not yet).

    Antonio Duran