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Securing and Optimizing WAN Traffic Example
A Blue Coat ProxySG used for SSL WAN optimization acts as the SSL proxy allowing branch office workers secure access that
can be inspected and optimized to internal web servers and external websites as well, providing the same benefits discussed
in the SSL forward proxy example. See Figure 11, below.
The ProxySG can hold both client and server keys for its internal clients. This allows SSL sessions to be carried out twice: once
between the client and proxy server, and again between the proxy server and the secure server. In that way, the ProxySG can to
listen in on the conversation without having the private keys of external servers.
The ProxySG can be used as described above, or simply to create a secure tunnel between sites across an insecure network.
SSL doesn’t allow recursive encryption, so by using it this way you lose the transparency of the proxy and get multiple
segments of secure connections, rather than a single secure end-to-end connection. The ProxySG has full SSL support as
opposed to just SSL tunneling. It can therefore do client authentication and serve documents like a secure server, or request
documents like an SSL-enabled client.
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Figure 11 – Example WAN Optimization Deployment
Technology Primer: Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
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