This section gives a few examples of distinguished names written using this notation. An example name in which an RDN was of an unrecognized type. Distinguished Names December 1997 7. Security Considerations 7.1. Disclosure Distinguished Names typically consist of descriptive information about the entries they name, which can be people, organizations, devices or other real-world objects.
Most countries have privacy laws regarding the publication of information about people.
The transformations of an AttributeValue value from its X.501 form to an LDAP string representation are not always reversible back to the same BER or DER form. An example of a situation which requires the DER form of a distinguished name is the verification of an X.509 certificate. Authors' Addresses Mark Wahl Critical Angle Inc. Distinguished Names December 1997 9. All Rights Reserved.