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"Really complicated" is possibly related to having to decrypt/reencrypt to HTTP at every hop. Otherwise all but the last node are basic pipes.
by xuhu 16y ago
"Really complicated" is possibly related to having to decrypt/reencrypt to HTTP at every hop. Otherwise all but the last node are basic pipes.
- jrockway 16y agoUh, no? It's SSL from the user to the load balancer. It's cleartext from the load balancer to the backend servers. There is only one SSL hop; over the insecure internet from your frontend server to the user. Once you are on the physically-secure local network, you don't need SSL anymore.
- mfukar 16y agoHTTP and HTTPS are end-to-end, care to clarify what you meant by "at every hop"?