SSL or TLS – on Firewalls and Load Balancers – layer 5 or layer 6
For layer 7 firewalls, how does SSL / TLS exactly work?
Since SSL lives in layer 6 (or 5) – but not 7, how does it even understand layer 7 (app specific) traffic?
The answer is that it doesn’t – it uses lower layer capabilities to try and decipher the application to block / allow.
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