X.500 Security Feature

What is X.500?
X.500 is an ISO (International Standards Organization) standard distributed directory system that's sometimes seen as a "competitor" to DNS

Featureas and functions X.500

• X.500 can be use to retrieve address information for a particular host
  


• X.500, as a directory service, supports many types of searching



• X.500 is a full-blown distributed database meant to be used for a wide variety of applications

You can store the phone book in an X.500 database. You can store location data in an X.500 database. You can store information about all sorts of network devices and their attributes.

• X.500 has security features involving credentials and the support of multiple encryption types