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Anurag_384242
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Feb 20, 2019

F5 LB : Decryption and Re-Encryption of Traffic to Application Server

I want to understand how a F5 Load balancer decrypts the SSL traffic received from a client say a browser and then re-encrypts it before sending/forwarding the same to an Application Server in an ent...
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Anurag_384242
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Feb 20, 2019

Thanks Stephane !

 

So, is it that the BIG-IP uses the public certificate presented by the Server to re-encrypt the traffic and then pass it on to the Server ?