This is a small HOW-TO to help configure Client Certificate Authentication with Tomcat.

Most the document deals with the creation of a self-managed CA and certificates, so it should be useful too to those willing to manage their own CA and generate certificates.

Note that the CA you can generate with this HOW-TO is a base level CA, it doesn’t have all the functionality the commercial CA’s offer but is free like in freedom and beer!!!

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