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bhaskar_babar_1
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Jan 12, 2017

SSL/TLS renegotiation

SSL/TLS renegotiation   What is SSL/TLS renegotiation ?   What exactly happens if we enable SSL/TLS renegotiation ? is there any impact on our environment ?   If we disable will there be any...
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Kai_Wilke
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Jan 12, 2017

Hi Bhaskar,

 

you may check out the article below. It contains lots of useful information regarding SSL renegotiations...

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/ssl-profiles-part-6-ssl-renegotiation

 

If you disable this feature certain Client Certificate based authentication scenarios will simply break. And if you don't use any form of Client Certificate based authentication then you'll most likely don't miss anything... ;-)

 

Cheers, Kai