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awan_m
Cirrostratus
CirrostratusClient Authentication with Proxy SSL
Hello - i have the following setup
Virtual server on the F5 without Client SSL or server ssl profiles - which passes web traffic to the backend iis server.
the IIS server is configured to require the client certificate for Client Authentication.
Question - if i configure client ssl and server ssl on F5 with Proxy ssl enabled - will the F5 pass the clients certificate to the backend IIS server?
Thanks
Hi,
Yes it will.
https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-ssl-administration-11-5-0/13.html
Does explain the setup.
Cheers,
Kees
awan_mThanks - i will test it out and update this .
- Kevin_Stewart
Employee
To be clear, there are generally two options for allowing mutual TLS to pass through the BIG-IP, with client/server SSL profiles applied:
- ProxySSL - as described above. But note, ProxySSL can only work with non-perfect-forward-secret handshakes. That means it only works with RSA handshakes, and never with ECC, DHE, ECDHE, ECDH, etc. And since RSA handshakes have been mostly deprecated by all modern browsers, this option isn't terribly useful unless you control the browsers and are willing to force significantly weaker encryption.
- Client Cert Constrained Delegation (C3D) - https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K14065425. This is the modern way to handle the requested scenario, and works with TLS1.3 and below with modern ciphers.
