Re: Possible way to increase Security

2004-02-22 Thread rhkelly
Duane wrote: The currently level and ease of use of cryptography is pretty poor, and perhaps that's understating it somewhat... This is a popular misconception among the cognoscenti, who feel that everybody should - for instance - always encrypt all e-mail. As a consequence, we all somehow

Re: Possible way to increase Security

2004-02-19 Thread Emil Assarsson
Whay don't you use LDAPv3 as protocol? This makes it easy to set up query limits, slave servers and so on. This could act as a address book also. Try www.OpenLDAP.org. The code in mozilla is mostly there, I belive. Maybe there is some issues with LDAPv3 och getting the cert. - Emil Assarsson

Re: Possible way to increase Security

2004-02-19 Thread Duane
Emil Assarsson wrote: Whay don't you use LDAPv3 as protocol? This makes it easy to set up query limits, slave servers and so on. This could act as a address book also. Try www.OpenLDAP.org. The code in mozilla is mostly there, I belive. Maybe there is some issues with LDAPv3 och getting the

Re: Possible way to increase Security

2004-02-19 Thread Julien Pierre
Duane, The idea is good, but as you point out, protocols such as LDAP already exist to do this. What's missing is a global (worldwide) directory that's independent of a particular corporation of government. The key problem is that no one entity would have the resources to host such a server.

Re: Possible way to increase Security

2004-02-19 Thread Duane
Julien Pierre wrote: Duane, The idea is good, but as you point out, protocols such as LDAP already exist to do this. What's missing is a global (worldwide) directory that's independent of a particular corporation of government. The key problem is that no one entity would have the resources to