Configuring SSL/TLS Connection Made Easy

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Setting up encryption for your application, how hard can it be? I thought it should be easy, as all communication with modern web applications should be encrypted, right? Well, my expectations were wrong… While setting it up, I encountered a couple of hidden difficulties. For example, the configuration is vague, verbose, not straight-forward to set it up, hard to debug, and not unit-test friendly.

For this article, I’ll assume you already have a basic understanding of certificates, keystores, encryption protocols, and ssl-handshake. If not, I would recommend going through this article: How to Easily Set Up Mutual TLS.


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