Tag: SSL Termination
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API Gateway: SSL Bridging
An API Gateway is a key architectural component in microservices-based systems, serving as a single entry point for client requests, managing traffic, and facilitating various cross-cutting concerns such as authentication, logging, rate limiting, and security. One of the critical security features of API Gateways is SSL Bridging, a process that ensures secure communications between clients…
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SSL Offloading
SSL offloading is a technique used to transfer the computational workload of SSL/TLS encryption and decryption from a web server to a dedicated device, such as a load balancer or hardware security module (HSM). This helps optimize server performance by allowing it to handle more client requests without the overhead of SSL processing, especially in…
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SSL Termination in API Gateway
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…