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From: Laurent Pautet <pautet@inf.enst.fr>
Subject: Re: Ada & Encryption / Compression
Date: 1997/03/05
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Date: 1997-03-05T00:00:00+00:00
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>>>>> "David" == David Downie <cs323389@student.uq.edu.au> writes:

David> I am thinking about writing an RSA encryption (or some other
David> encryption) package. I would like to do it in Ada (rather than
David> the suggested C), but am not an Ada expert and do not know if I
David> would just be making things difficult for myself.

David> Has anyone had any similar (bit level) experience and can
David> comment or perhaps point me somewhere?

Data filtering (basically compression) will be available in the next
GLADE release (Ada binding to Z library). At the same time, as it is
possible to add other filters, contributors will provide encryption
filters (wolf@lglsun.epfl.ch).