SSL Termination

SSL termination is a process of decrypting the encrypted SSL TRAFFIC and transforming heavy HTTPS packets into lighter HTTP packets.

It is job of the web server to offload the SSL traffic but instead of relying upon the web server computational capabilities, API GATEWAYS takes care of SSL TERMINATION.

Denser SSL Traffic via HTTPS protocol traffic will be transformed into lighter HTTP traffic , the HTTP traffic will have LOWER DATA OVERHEAD then HTTPS TRAFFIC.

SSL TERMINATION can drastically reduce the load on servers and hence with the help of SSL termination the web server will require lower computational power to process web traffic.

SSL termination is a very useful feature to have, as the dense HTTPS traffic is converted into lighter HTTP traffic resulting in faster data transmission with low latency and high consistency, all this while reducing the computational cost and power cost.

Enterprise leverages SSL termination will reduce server load and data transmission latency. SSL TERMINATION helps in efficient LOAD ALLOTMENT, this make it much more easier for load balancers to distribute the SSL TRAFFIC across multiple servers.

SSL termination is carried out at the API GATEWAYS and then the HTTP traffic is transferred to the load balancers which directs the traffic towards healthy server thus ensuring scalability, data consistency and low latency.

When the traffic from the API gateway is directed to the web server it needs to be reduced in size so that the web server can have lower time complexity and space complexity. SSL offloading will reduce the dense encrypted data packets into lighter data packets thus resulting in faster load time and faster web server based processing.

SSL offloading has to be carried out in distributed systems, in banking system for maintaining high level of encryption and privacy it can be omitted but in majority of software system SSL OFF-LOADING needs to be in place in order to ensure lower latency and high throughput.

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(Article by : Himanshu N)