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Certificates for SSL Connections

You can enable SSL for the artifact back channel or for general federated communication. Establishing the SSL connection requires that the relying party has the CA certificate associated with the signed SSL server certificate. The SSL server certificate secures the SSL connection, and the CA certificate verifies the SSL server certificate is trusted.