Passwords in eDirectory are somewhat complicated things, and in fact sometimes it seems like there are too many.

The good news is that it is not that hard to understand them all, there is just a fair bit of detail involved, and once you get used to it, it all starts to make a lot of sense.

There is the original RSA key pairs (The actual attribute names in eDirectory are Public Key and Private Key. The latter is protected from most tools being able to see it for obvious reasons). Read more here…