Re: [authmeth] secure derivations of server hostname

To: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Subject: Re: [authmeth] secure derivations of server hostname
From: Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:53:57 +0200
Cc: ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org
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Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:

I'll give two examples.
1) a client could derive a hostname from "localhost" in a secure fashion.


How?

2) a client could derive a hostname from a domain name in a secure fashion
   using DNSSEC.


Yes.

Ciao, Michael.

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