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Secure directories

D.W. Chadwick

In W.S. Schneider B. Jerman-Blazic and T. Klobucar, editors, Advanced Security Technologies for Insecure Networks, pages 182-196. IOS Press, Amsterdam, June 2000 Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Networking Workshop on Advanced Security Technologies in Networking, Portoroz, Slovenia.

Abstract

This paper describes the mechanisms that are needed in order to provide a secure directory service based on the X.500 data model. A brief introduction to the X.500 data model is given followed by an overview of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Security can be provided by three functions: an application level firewall, an authentication mechanism, and an access control scheme. A description of the X.500 and LDAP access control models is presented followed by the authentication methods that have been standardised for LDAPv3. A companion paper describes a directory application firewall.

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Bibtex Record

@incollection{2130,
author = {D.W. Chadwick},
title = {Secure Directories},
month = {June},
year = {2000},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Networking Workshop on Advanced Security Technologies in Networking, Portoroz, Slovenia},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2000/2130},
    publication_type = {incollection},
    editor = {B. Jerman-Blazic , W.S. Schneider and T. Klobucar},
    booktitle = {Advanced Security Technologies for Insecure Networks },
    publisher = {IOS Press, Amsterdam},
}

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