Eiffel crypto libraries?

[Ulrich Windl]

Hi!

I hope that everybody agrees that today's networking software needs cryptographic routines. Where in the past long-integer arithmetic seemed sufficient, today with timing attacks and similar, the situation is more complex, not to talk about elliptic curves and post-quantum cryptography.
Personally I assume that such implementations cannot be done in Eiffel, but I'm open to be proven wrong.
So: If you want to "play crypto" in Eiffel today, what would I use?

Ulrich

[Ian Joyner]

On Burroughs/Unisys machines, I’d implement such stuff in ALGOL. There is probably a Hoare-monitor-based library to do that. On most machines today, that means C, although C only gives lowest-common-denominator facilities and crypto probably could access more platform-specific stuff.

Alan Perlis (first recipient of the ACM Turing Award for computing): “A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. While, yes, this definition applies to C, it does not capture what people desire in a low-level language.”

What is really needed is small platform-specific languages to do away with both C and assemblers.

Ian

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