This repository contains the source code for Ada Cryptographic Objects (ACO), an Ada library of crypto primitives distributed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license.
ACO provides both high level interfaces to cryptographic services using the features of Ada 2012, and low level implementations of those services written in SPARK. The correctness and security of the implementation is a high priority. The use of SPARK is intended to support that goal.
It is my intention to eventually support various high level cryptographic services in ACO such as OpenPGP, X.509 certificates, SSL, and similar things. Obviously this is a very ambitious plan.
To build ACO and all related programs, install Alire. There are
three crates defined in this repository. Running alr build in the top level folder will
build the library itself. Running alr build in tests and again in benchmarks will build
the test program and the benchmark program, respectively.
SPARK is not needed to build and use ACO or its associated programs. However, if you wish to develop ACO or check the SPARK proofs that come with ACO you should install SPARK. Alire can do this for you.
ACO is developed primarly on Windows but it is intended to support both Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Peter Chapin
spicacality@kelseymountain.org