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DifanZ
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May 27, 2022

LTM two-way SSL authentication with a specific client cert, not CA cert

Hi experts, I am trying to set up the SSL two-way authentication following this link https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K12140946#test. It is successful when I choose a CA certificate in the "Truste...
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DifanZ
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Thank you Xuwen! So it is not possible to do it in the GUI, and an irule would be required for this, correct?

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May 29, 2022

sure, you can don't need irules, only use GUI,First, you need to let Client SSL profile the option "Client Certificate" value set to "Require",  then you can use a self-signed CA certificate(

), instead of using a public CA certificate, use the self-signed CA certificate to sign the client certificate to test the verification, and use curl --key xxx --cert xxx on the client side to test two-way ssl