From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,60930a8e43781f3f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-17 12:47:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.net.uni-c.dk!uninett.no!nntp.uib.no!not-for-mail From: Gisle =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E6lensminde?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada and cryptography Date: 17 Jun 2002 19:47:35 GMT Organization: Institutt for Informatikk, UiB Message-ID: References: <994828d9.0206161145.cbf4b08@posting.google.com> <3D0D4448.813A3BE5@acm.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: apal.ii.uib.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: toralf.uib.no 1024343255 51783 129.177.16.7 (17 Jun 2002 19:47:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@uib.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Jun 2002 19:47:35 GMT User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.2 (SunOS) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26175 Date: 2002-06-17T19:47:35+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- Gisle S�lensminde ( gisle@ii.uib.no ) With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. (from RFC 1925)