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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada for the TLS/SSL problem?
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 09:14:26 +0100
Date: 2016-03-16T09:14:26+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ncb4lj$1o09$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8737rrsc2l.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de

On 15/03/2016 21:47, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Peter Brooks:
>
>> There are still many problems turning up with TSL authentication. It's
>> no particular surprise as even OpenSSL has been using C for this code.
>>
>> Isn't this an opportunity for Ada to really shine?
>
> It's really hard to write a good TLS implementation.  Ditching C gets
> rid of just one class of issues (related memory safety).

At least we could have a better API. GNUTLS design is quite 
uncomfortable to use in a "socket-select" environment.

> All the
> cryptography problems remain mostly unchanged.  This concerns both
> low-level issues (such as avoiding informnation leaks due to timing
> and other mishaps) and high-level design issues in TLS itself.

Yes

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de


  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-16  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-15 18:46 Ada for the TLS/SSL problem? Peter Brooks
2016-03-15 19:00 ` Shark8
2016-03-15 19:10   ` Peter Brooks
2016-03-15 19:04 ` Shark8
2016-03-15 20:47 ` Florian Weimer
2016-03-16  8:14   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2016-03-16 17:42     ` Florian Weimer
2016-03-16 18:25       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-03-16 22:18         ` Florian Weimer
2016-03-17  8:14           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-03-15 21:02 ` Paul Rubin
2016-03-16  4:08   ` Peter Brooks
2016-03-16  6:13     ` Paul Rubin
2016-03-16 12:09       ` Peter Brooks
2016-03-16 17:04         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-03-16 18:31           ` Peter Brooks
2016-03-16 20:28             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-03-16 19:57           ` Olivier Henley
2016-03-16  8:42 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2016-03-16  8:46   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-03-16 10:52   ` G.B.
2016-03-16 15:27     ` G.B.
2016-03-16 12:14   ` Peter Brooks
2016-03-16 12:17     ` Bob Butler
2016-04-26 10:42 ` Peter Brooks
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