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