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Sebas_82058
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Jun 18, 2014

Two-way SSL authentication with self-signed client certificate

Hi, we're trying to implement a two-way SSL authentication against one of our virtual servers.   We have a certificate for our virtual server, which is signed by a CA and is working just as expect...
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Cory_50405
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Jun 18, 2014

Is the certificate needed on the backend server for authentication? If so, then you could enable proxy SSL within the client and server SSL profiles assigned to your virtual server. This will enable the client certificate to be passed along to the web server. Since you mention this is two-way SSL, I suspect the server is still doing the authentication piece.

 

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