
Mutual TLS | The Backend Engineering Show
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Transport Layer security or TLS is a protocol that encrypted the communication between client and server. TLS can also be used to authenticate the server, when the client also requires authentication this is called Mutual TLS and this is the topic of today’s show.
0:00 Introduction
2:00 What is TLS?
7:00 Server Authentication TLS
14:00 Advantages of one way TLS
19:44 Disadvantages of one way TLS
29:00 mTLS
31:00 Advantages of MTLS
37:00 The Problems of mTLS
43:00 Summary and my Thoughts
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