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Muhammad_Irfan1
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Apr 08, 2015

SSL certificate using F5 with MS Exchange

I want to buy an SSL certificate from Certificate Authority website. Traffic from client to F5 is https and from F5 to CAS server of MS Exchange is also HTTPS. Should i order a certificate with SAN p...
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nathe
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Apr 09, 2015

When you use the BIG-IP to do SSL bridging for any application i.e. terminate ssl and then re-encrypt, you only need a certificate to match the host name in the client ssl profile - as this does the termination. The certificate on the backend can be an internal PKI certificate if you choose.

 

Hope this helps,

 

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