Whiteboard Wednesday: SSL Proxy Solutions

In this episode of Whiteboard Wednesday, Jason continues the proxy discussion from last episode with a breakdown of the ProxySSL and SSL Forward Proxy solutions available on the BIG-IP.

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Published Sep 23, 2015
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    JRahm
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    Sep 24, 2015
    added an annotation to the video as well for the cipher list, either the server or the BIG-IP should be trimming non RSA ciphers for Proxy SSL to work.
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    Sep 24, 2015
    Complete SSL passthrough where you simply load balance is possible...unfortunately the proxySSL capability extendng to ECC and the likes is a limitation within the protocols. Alternative to simple load balancing for non RSA key exchange at this point is offload with client auth moved forward from the app to the BIG-IP.
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    Sep 24, 2015
    Is there any way to do client cert authentication pass though without proxy SSL. ECDHE is becoming more and more required. Especially with iOS 9.