1. Preface

This tutorial provides guidelines for Zorp administrators on how to enable proxying secure SSL and TLS connections. Knowledge in TCP/IP and Zorp administration is required to fully comprehend the contents of this paper. The procedures and concepts described here are applicable to version 7 of Zorp. Detailed information is provided to configure Zorp both from Zorp Management Console and using Python scripts.

Note that explaining the concepts of the different aspects of SSL/TLS proxying is beyond the scope of this tutorial. For background information, see the following documents:

For details on deriving and modifying proxies, see Section 6.6, Proxy classes in Zorp Professional 7 Administrator Guide.
For an overview on certificates and related topics in connection with Zorp, see Chapter 11, Key and certificate management in Zorp in Zorp Professional 7 Administrator Guide.
For details on the available SSL-related attributes of the Zorp proxies, see Section 3.2, Handling TLS and SSL connections in Zorp in Zorp Professional 7 Reference Guide

You can download the above documents at the Balasys Documentation Page.

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