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Chris_Olson_172
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Jan 30, 2018

How Serverside SSL works with no certificate

We are investigating implementation of serverside SSL. If I create the profile using all the defaults, will it work?

 

I understand that certs are about authentication as well as encryption but I need to know how SSL works between the F5 and the servers in the pool when we are not deploying a certificate. (using None which is the default) The most I can get is that the F5 acts as a client in this scenario. Can someone explain how this works?

 

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  • Andy_McGrath's avatar
    Andy_McGrath
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    Jan 30, 2018

    The F5 acts as the clients for standard Server side SSL you do not need to assign a certificate.

     

    If you were using Mutual Authentication or needed to provide a client certificate to your backend servers for some other reason then you would need to assign a certificate.