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TommyQuality_26
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Apr 27, 2016

SSL Termination issue

Hi,   Hoping someone can help?   We have a number of webservers being served by the F5. The SSL Certificate is being terminated at the F5 and then re-encrypted with the same certificate onto t...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Apr 27, 2016

If I was to have the webservers using (HTTP) and don't re-encrypt the connect, so basically SSL offload would this get round the issue?

 

Well, yes. But then you wouldn't be providing any authentication to the backend servers.