Assured: The Isode Blog

Directory Client API Information

The documentation for our directory client API, which shipped in R11.0, is now on the Web site.

This includes:

• Product description: http://www.isode.com/products/directory-client-api.html
• Manual for 'C' language bindings: http://www.isode.com/Documentation/dclient-api.html
• Full API definitions and examples of the core Directory Client API product.
• Full API defintions and an exmaple (test program) for the ATN (Aeronautical Telecommunications Network) Directory Client API.

This is a general purpose product, but we believe that it will be of particular interest to Aviation customers, wishing to build SARPs compliant AMHS Terminals and MTCUs that access the ATN Directory.  This will add value to customers, and is essential for provision of the Extended ATS Messaging Service.

Steve

New Directory Whitepaper

In a previous whitepaper we looked at directory requirements for the support of a large distributed PKI, and set out the reasons for building such a PKI and the requirements on the associated distributed directory in order to support the PKI. That whitepaper took a "top level" view, and focused particularly on the relationship between departments and what is needed to be supported in the middle. Departments were modeled as having a single directory server, which is quite simplistic.

A new whitepaper on the Isode site "Distributed Directory in support of Large Scale PKI: Supporting Government Departments" takes a departmental view, and looks at what a department will realistically need to do in order to provide a directory service that will integrate into the complete system.

Whilst this whitepaper takes a generic approach, the models set out are written in light of the requirements of US Government departments that need to conform to Homeland Security Policy Directive 12 (HSPD12) and will interconnect using the Federal Bridge as part of the US Federal PKI.

M-Box Performance benchmarks

Our new IMAP/POP server, M-Box, was written with very high performance and scalability targets in mind. In order to judge our success in meeting these targets the product has been tested against a wide basket of commercial and open source alternatives.

A new whitepaper on the our website gives performance numbers for M-Box using the Mstone industry standard benchmark and provides reference comparison with a number of widely used IMAP servers. The whitepaper is is available here and more information on M-Box, which is available as an evaluation package, can be found here.