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by daemon13 4627 days ago
thank you for update

>> I still believe that using PFS, even with this limitation, is safer ...

I definitely agree, the problem is that usually there is more than 1 web server :-)

>> The standard is still to point clients to a single termination endpoint, and do active/passive cluster, so that there's no need to share the session tickets.

Sorry, I did not understand (esp. the active/passive cluster thing) - could you please may be add some pointers (blog post, etc) with more details?
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zobzu 4627 days ago
That's a good point about master keys. The state is pretty bad with Apache for example, and I'm not sure its much better with nginx at least by default.

I think that what he means is that you terminate SSL on the load balancers (= single termination endpoint), then have your cluster beneath it (non-SSL/TLS, or new SSL/TLS connection, thus different tickets)

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daemon13 4626 days ago
a-ha, got it, thanks :)

true, esp if use HaProxy as LB

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