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A load balancer terminates TLS and forwards traffic to backend servers over plain, unencrypted HTTP within the same data center. What is the primary risk this introduces?
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A load balancer terminates TLS and forwards traffic to backend servers over plain, unencrypted HTTP within the same data center. What is the primary risk this introduces?
What does the browser padlock icon confirm about a website?
A server is configured with a valid leaf certificate but fails to serve the required intermediate certificate. What is the likely symptom?
What is TLS session resumption used for?
What does SNI (Server Name Indication) allow a TLS server to do?
A company runs internal service-to-service traffic where every service must strongly verify the identity of every other service, not just trust network location. Which TLS configuration best fits this requirement?
What is a key improvement TLS 1.3 made to the handshake compared to TLS 1.2?
What is a certificate chain (chain of trust)?
What does HTTPS add on top of plain HTTP?
Why would a server operator disable support for older cipher suites like RC4 or export-grade ciphers?
A production site's certificate expired overnight and users are seeing browser security warnings. What is the most direct fix and the better long-term prevention?
What is the role of a Certificate Authority (CA) in the TLS trust model?