6.1.
Introduction
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Transport layer security (TLS) is the term used for encrypting the packets of information sent between the server and the client (and client and server). It is also used to allow one side to verify the identity of the other party. In a normal installation it is only the client who verifies the server's identity so that the client is sure that they are communicating with the service they intended to.
In a simple installation, a GRIA service is installed in Tomcat and Tomcat is configured to use TLS. For extra flexibility and robustness many people want to use the Apache web server as a front end and pass requests on to Tomcat behind. In this scenario Apache handles the encryption at the transport layer, but will pass requests on to Tomcat for processing.
