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Dazzla_20011
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Mar 25, 2011

Server-side SSL

Hi,     Currently we only do client-side SSL on the F5. I've been asked if we can encrypt the traffic from the F5 to web servers. I know the F5 can do server side ssl so just wonderered if some...
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Joel_Moses
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Mar 31, 2011
I've only _very rarely_ seen a web server that requires SSL Mutual Authentication for incoming channels that isn't doing _client authentication_ with the presented certificate; it's certainly possible but is extremely uncommon. These servers are typically doing this for Web Services (J2EE/WCF) and aren't meant to be directly used by end-users. I think that the certificate/key field is left in the ServerSSL profile just for this eventuality?