Other Publications

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Publication	Description	Formats
MDB: A Memory-Mapped Database and backend for OpenLDAP Howard Chu Symas Corp.	This paper and presentation discusses MDB, the memory-mapped database, as presented at the 3rd International Conference on LDAP, October 2011.	PDF (presentation) PDF (paper)
OpenLDAP 2.4 Highlights: Features of the Upcoming Release Howard Chu Symas Corp.	This paper and presentation discusses features of OpenLDAP 2.4, as presented at the 1st International Conference on LDAP, Sept 2007.	PDF (presentation) PDF (paper)
Setting a Course for the Enterprise Howard Chu Symas Corp.	A presentation Howard gave at SCALE 5x on 10 Feb. 2007	PDF
Improving Connection Management of the OpenLDAP Directory Server Sang Seok Lim / Jong Hyuk Choi / Hubertus Franke / Kurt Zeilenga IBM Research / Linux Technology Center	This paper describes IBM efforts to improve the performance of the slapd(8) connection manager. Submitted for possible publication in the 24th IASTED International Multi-Conference on Applied Informantics (Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks), 2006.	PDF
A New On-line Certificate Validation Method for Improved Security, Scalability, and Interoperability Jong Hyuk Choi / Sang Seok Lim / Kurt Zeilenga IBM Research / Linux Technology Center	This paper describes the potential use of the LDAP component matching technology for on-line certificate validation. Presented at the 6th IEEE Information Assurance Workshop. June 2005.	PDF
Design and Implementation of LDAP Component Matching for Flexible and Secure Certificate Access in PKI Sang Seok Lim / Jong Hyuk Choi / Kurt Zeilenga IBM Research / Linux Technology Center	Presentation and paper presented at the 4th annual PKI R&D Workshop 2005. April 2005	PDF (Presentation) PDF (Paper)
Enhancing the Performance of OpenLDAP Directory Server with Multiple Caching Jong Hyuk Choi / Hubertus Franke / Kurt Zeilenga IBM Research / Linux Technology Center	This paper describes the design and performance evaluation of the IDL cache and entry cache in an early versoin of back-bdb. Presented at International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computers and Telecommunications Systems (SPECTS). July 2003.	PDF
The OpenLDAP Proxy Cache Apurva Kumar IBM, India Research Laboratory	This paper discusses the Proxy Caching extension to OpenLDAP Software. May 2003	PDF
LDAP Content Synchronization Kurt Zeilenga OpenLDAP Project	Slides from a colloquium Kurt gave at CalPoly/SLO in April 2003	PPT

The following obsolete publications are available:

Publication	Description	Formats
OpenLDAP Server With Server-Side SSL/TLS and Client Authentication D. Kent Soper IBM Linux Technology Center	This paper discusses how one may use TLS in (a now obsolete version of) OpenLDAP Software. June 2003 Note: It is recommended that OpenLDAP users consult the OpenLDAP Admin Guide for a detailed discussion of TLS/SSL use in OpenLDAP Software instead of this individual authored paper. The material in this paper is (at best) quite dated.	1HTML

The following historic publications are available:

Publication	Description	Formats
The SLAPD and SLURPD Administrator's Guide University of Michigan	The U-MICH LDAP 3.3 Admin Guide. Originally published 30 April 1996	PDF PS
A Scalable, Deployable Directory Service Framework for the Internet Timothy A. Howes and Mark C. Smith University of Michigan	UM-CITI Technical Report 95-7 (11 July 1995)	PDF PS
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: X.500 Lite Timothy A. Howes University of Michigan	UM-CITI Technical Report 95-8 (27 July 1995)	PDF PS
Referrals Within the LDAPv2 Protocol University of Michigan	This document discusses LDAPv2 referrals (30-Aug-1996)	HTML1
An X.500 and LDAP Database: Design and Implementation Timothy A. Howes University of Michigan	This paper describes the design and implementation of xldbm, an X.500 and stand-alone LDAP backend database for U-Mich LDAP.	PDF PS

Publications are available in variety of formats:

Format	Description
HTML	HTML (split by topic)
1HTML	HTML (single document)
PPT	Microsoft Powerpoint
PDF	Portable Document Format
PS	PostScript
TXT	plain text