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Re: [Cryptography] Why human-readable IDs (was Re: Email and IM are
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Aug 29 13:33:40 2013
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:33:18 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1308290114310.32478@aneurin.horsfall.org>
Cc: Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 01:18:59 +1000 (EST) Dave Horsfall
<dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> > Anyway, I've already started implementing my proposed solution to
> > that part of the problem. There is still a need for a distributed
> > database to handle the lookup load, though, and one that is not
> > the DNS.
>
> (Delurking)
>
> This suggests the use of LDAP.
I can think of no circumstances where I would voluntarily use LDAP as
the solution to any problem of any sort.
In any case, you will note that LDAP does not actually solve the
problem statement as I gave it: that is to say, users must be able to
join the system without the permission or assistance of systems
administrators.
--
Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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