Re: Ada and cryptography

["Gisle Sælensminde" <gisle@apal.ii.uib.no>]

In article <3D0D4448.813A3BE5@acm.org>, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> Tuomas P wrote:
>> 
>> 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 could not find the original article so I'm responding to this one

Ada is in fact very well-suited for cryptograph, especially symetric, 
crypto, as most of the data types and operators needed can be defined or
are buldt in. For public-key crypto, bignumber libraries are missing,
but so are they doing in C, wich is considerd the "standard" language of 
cryptography.

I have implemented the serpent algorithm in Ada myself:

ftp://ftp.ii.uib.no/pub/ada/serpent.tar.gz

Otherwise, the links to some of the crypto code I have used earlier seems
to be dead, which is sad.
 
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