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Istio in Action
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Istio in Action

by Christian E. Posta, Rinor Maloku
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
13h 18m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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appendix C. Istio security: SPIFFE

C.1 Authentication using PKI (public key infrastructure)

Authentication of communicating parties on the World Wide Web is done using digitally signed certificates provisioned by a public key infrastructure (PKI). The PKI is a framework that defines the process of providing the server (such as a web app) with a digital certificate to prove its identity and providing the client with the means of verifying the validity of the digital certificate. To dive deeper into how the PKI works, check out https://www.securew2.com/blog/public-key-infrastructure -explained.

The certificates provisioned by the PKI have a public key and a private key. The public key is contained in the certificate presented to the client as a ...

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