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Re: [Cryptography] Why human-readable IDs (was Re: Email and IM are

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Thu Sep 5 21:51:24 2013

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Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:43:46 +1200
From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:

>I can think of no circumstances where I would voluntarily use LDAP as the
>solution to any problem of any sort.

"Our direct competitor has asked us to recommend a technology for <whatever it 
is that LDAP is meant to be the solution for>.  What should we recommend to 
them?".

(Bit of an artificial example, but between that and Corba you can really mess
up someone's business).

Peter.
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