A trusted network model using the lightweight directory access protocol
Dimitris C. Vasiliadis, George E. Rizos, Eleftherios Stergiou, Spiridoula V. Margariti · 2007
Abstract:- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an Internet protocol that email and other programs use to look up information from a server. LDAP has been recently identified as an efficient technology for accessing common directory information. Moreover, LDAP is not limited to contact information or information about people, but it is used to look up encryption certificates, pointers to printers and other services on a network providing a "single sign on", where one password for a user is shared between many services on an intranet, or even on the Internet. Thus, LDAP provides an extendable architecture for centralized storage and management of information that needs to be available for today’s distributed systems and services. In our paper we analyze a network model in the context of providing trusted information between a central database and one or more servers in the network. In the proposed network schema a server manager is coupled between the central database and servers. The server manager provides trusted communication by transmitting configuration information between the central database and servers in single communication channels.