mTLS
protocol
Overview
Developed byInternet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Open source✓ Open Source
Use casemutual authentication where both client and server verify TLS certificates
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Claims12
Avg confidence93%
Avg freshness99%
Last updatedUpdated yesterday
Trust distribution
100% unverified
Governance
Not assessed
mTLS
concept
Mutual TLS authentication where both client and server verify each other's certificates
Compare with...open source
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
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| true | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
used by
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| Cloudflare | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Kubernetes | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
primary use case
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
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| mutual authentication where both client and server verify TLS certificates | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
implemented by
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| OpenSSL | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| nginx | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Apache HTTP Server | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
governed by
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
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| RFC 8446 (TLS 1.3) | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| RFC 5246 (TLS 1.2) | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
developed by
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
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| Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
alternative to
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| API keys | ○Unverified | Moderate | Fresh | 1 |
| bearer tokens | ○Unverified | Moderate | Fresh | 1 |