Certification Authority's Database

2011-11-17 Thread sandeep kiran p
Hi, A quick question. Does the SubjectName in a certificate really need point to an LDAP DN in a X500 Directory that a CA uses or do CAs manage the SubjectName DNs without actually using any sort of Directory? I want to know whether it is a general practice for CAs not to maintain any LDAP

Re: Certification Authority's Database

2011-11-17 Thread Jakob Bohm
The coupling between DN's in certificates and DN's in LDAP is a historical accident caused by the X.509 certificate format originally being intended only for X.500 directories (the kind accessed with LDAP). This history also assumed that there would be only one, distributed, worldwide X.500

Re: Certification Authority's Database

2011-11-17 Thread Bruce Stephens
sandeep kiran p sandeepkiranp-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org writes: Hi, A quick question. Does the SubjectName in a certificate really need point to an LDAP DN in a X500 Directory that a CA uses or do CAs manage the SubjectName DNs without actually using any sort of Directory? I