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In computing there are two terms which are often confused: encoding and enciphering. One of them, with 'cipher' in its name, usually best refers to something that is cryptographically enciphered which means it was mathematically mangled in a fashion that the result, regardless of the input, is fairly random, patternless nonsense to the un-key-assisted eye. The other term refers to simply changing data from one form to another at is basic level. One type of encoding is 'base64' encoding, which is used through many areas of computing and can be explained much more-simply than most cryptographic cipher functions (in my opinion). This article is to show how, on many levels, Linux Just Does That.

This solution / tool will allow users to do an LDAP authentication with out having an LDAP server certificate.

This article explains how to do LDAP SSL authentication using the Novell LDAP Libraries for C#.

Never get caught with expired eDirectory certificates again. Use the checkcerts.pl perl script as a cron job to provide regular alerts for expired or soon to expire certificates.

Updated: The Certificate Creation script recreates the certificates on OES1 and OES2 servers using a Personal Information Exchange File.

Mike Faris explains how to replace existing server certificates with new certificates that are virtually the same, they just last until the CA itself expires.