RE: History of X.500 (RE: gluing directories with draft-ietf-ldapext-locate-02.txt)

["Rich Salz" <rsalz@caveosystems.com>]

>distribution was provided in 1988 as chained DSAs

Oh, you mean referrals?  Or is it DNS "recursion" :)

Thanks, Harald, for reminding me that X.500 '88 had no security model worth
the the use of the term.  A user could authentication, there was no
authorization,
and the authen was DN and password, and the schema said the user's password
was stored in the DIT as plaintext.  Alan, you have to admit that for a
certificate-propagation scheme, that is just plain nonsensical...
	/r$