Certificate-based Mutual TLS Authentication with Nginx

Ng Wai Foong
Level Up Coding
Published in
8 min readSep 17, 2020

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Additional layer of security for your Flask or FastAPI server

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You will learn to create self-signed server certificates in order to serve your web application as https. Later on, you can easily swap it with certificates from certificates authorities for your server.

In addition, this article will also cover two-way authentication between server…

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