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Mutual TLS: Vital for Securing Microservices in a Service Mesh

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Thu, 04/28/2022 - 16:10




Why do you need mTLS?

While TLS is being used to secure traffic between clients and servers on the internet, it does so by using unidirectional authentication — the server presents a digital certificate to prove its identity to a client. This is the classic scenario of a user accessing a web-based service or a website.


Mutual TLS extends the client-server TLS model …

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