
How To Implement Two Way SSL With Nginx
A couple of weeks ago, I was tasked with figuring out a way to enable two way SSL. I am a programmer, and have had only a limited experience with networking concepts like SSL/TLS in my short career. So I turned up blank on how I could make it possible. Moreover, the terminology you’d find online is not uniform. From a programming point of view, the term “Two way SSL” led me to limited results, and I soon realized that other communities have different terminology. For example the “Two way SSL” is also known as “Mutual TLS” or “mTLS” or “Client Certificate Authentication” in Cloud/DevOps communitites. This makes finding the right resources online more difficult. ...