At 5:28 PM 7/20/95, Donald E. Eastlake 3rd wrote:
If you are going to change to MD5, why not really fix it and dump the
ghastly Dinstinguished Names, the Assinine One syntax, and the other
ISO nonsense. Can anyone name any successful system that uses
Distinguished Names? I can think of only one, Lotus Notes, and that
is presumably because it completely hides them and not user ever has
to deal withone.
Of course. In well-designed X.400 UAs, no user should have to "deal with"
DNs. Users normally should only have to deal with short, familiar, and
even locally-defined aliases and nicknames, and should seldom even have to
type those, selecting them from menus instead. In cases when the full
details of DNs are important for the user to see, they can be displayed in
a familiar, user-friendly format, such as the one used as for the
destination address on a envelope you mail through the postal service. An
example is the display format in TechMail PEM.