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Re: [pkix] purpose of LDAP in PKI

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Mon, 18 February 2013 14:25 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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"Goulet, Walter" <Walter.Goulet@rsa.com> writes:

>Basically, exposing your certificate via LDAP makes it *much* easier for
>other applications to actually use your certificate.

This should really be:

  Basically, exposing your certificate makes it *much* easier for other
  applications to actually use your certificate.

The built-in assumption in the original statement that LDAP is the only way to
do this is at best incorrect, at worst dangerous (it implies that you need to
LDAP-enable an application, configure and run an LDAP server, and get things
to talk LDAP to each other, which can be enough to sink a PKI project).

Peter.

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