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Mar 17, 2024
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API: SSL/TLS

Secure your endpoints with https

All about https and SSL that you need to know

Asymmetric and Symmetric Encryption

SSL - Secure Socket Layer

SSL was superseded by TLS - Transport Layer Security

HTTP over TLS

Works in the Transport Layer of the OSI stack

Basics: https://github.com/ssllabs/research/wiki/SSL-and-TLS-Deployment-Best-Practices

SSL Termination - the process of decrypting the encrypted traffic before passing it along