Re: matching large attributes

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 02:43 PM 2001-09-12, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
>I need to be able to store (somehow) a 128-bit fixed length security key
>as an LDAP attribute and search very efficiently to locate objects
>containing this attribute (equality only; no substrings or other
>comparisions are necessary).
> 
>What syntax and matching rules should I specify? It looks like the
>attribute syntax could be binary (1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.5) but I
>see no binary matching syntax.

Binary refers to BER data.  You likely should use octetString
w/ an octetStringMatch equality matching rule.