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Bringing authentication and identification to Workers through Mutual TLS

Bringing authentication and identification to Workers through Mutual TLS

11/16/2022 · Dina Kozlov

What this post added

Introduces the upcoming capability for Cloudflare Workers to use mutual TLS (mTLS) for outbound requests. This allows Workers to present client certificates, enabling server-side authentication and identification of the originating Worker. This addresses limitations of existing methods like Authenticated Origin Pull and token authentication by providing per-Worker granularity, secure HTTP communication, and client identity exposure.

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