mTLS vs. HTTP Message Signatures: Tradeoffs in Securing HTTP Requests

2 pointsposted a day ago
by getvictor

Item id: 44484601

3 Comments

p_ing

a day ago

No sane infrastructure engineer would let you do anything other than TLS in production. Devs are largely untrusted to get security correct.

getvictor

a day ago

Yes, I'm assuming you're always running TLS. The question is whether to use mTLS (mutual TLS) vs HTTP message signatures to verify that the request is coming from a trusted client.