From: Laurent Pautet <pautet@inf.enst.fr>
Subject: Re: Ada & Encryption / Compression
Date: 1997/03/06
Date: 1997-03-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rcabu8w4ram.fsf@scapin.enst.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: osn2shxb7e.fsf@ted.vigra.com
>>>>> "Larry" == Larry Kilgallen <kilgallen@eisner.decus.org> writes:
Larry> In former years, RSA did not license the patent for your
Larry> own implementation other than with a very steep minimum fee
Larry> (on the order of 10 million dollars, according to rumor).
First of all, Larry thanks for your previous post and all these clarifications.
Larry> In my opinion calling RSA's BSAFE toolkit from Ada is much
Larry> nicer than calling it from C. Of course I might say that
Larry> about a lot of toolkits, but even though it is written in
Larry> C, BSAFE avoids such C-isms as null-terminated strings.
Yes, we choose this solution for the GLADE filtering (RSA + DES), but
of course, you have to check that the implementation is thread-safe if
needed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-03-06 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-03-05 0:00 Ada & Encryption / Compression David Downie
1997-03-05 0:00 ` John Howard
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Bob Klungle
1997-03-06 0:00 ` David L Brown
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-06 0:00 ` William W Pritchett
1997-03-06 0:00 ` BSAFE Bindings for Ada (was: Ada & Encryption / Compression) Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Ada & Encryption / Compression John Howard
1997-03-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Laurent Pautet [this message]
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
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