Secure apache webserver with client certificates
- October 9th, 2009
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If you want to protect your web-server you have a lot of different options. Basic authentication, LDAP, Kerberos, NTLM … and many more. Another option is to use client certificates that the user has to import into his browser. Using this technology the SSL handshake between browser and webserver only succeeds if the user has a valid (not yet expired) certificate installed in his browser … Of course this needs quite some maintenance effort – but if you have very valuable content that needs some extra security this might be a good option … you can read more in our apache howto section …

