RE: Storing X509 certificates in LDAP?

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Dieter Kluenter

> > I have built the latest OpenLDAP on my Sun work
> > station running Solaris.  I am wondering how we should
> > store an X509 user certificate in an LDAP server.
>
> A X.509 certificate is a base64 encoded attribute value.

No, the commandline tools typically *display* the userCertificate attribute
value as  base64 encoded data, but the value itself must be stored in binary,
that is, DER form.

  -- Howard Chu
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