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2 # COPYING RESTRICTIONS APPLY, see COPYRIGHT.
6 OpenLDAP clients and servers are capable of using
7 Transport Layer Security {{TERM:TLS}} framework to provide
8 integrity and confidentiality protections and to support
9 LDAP authentication via SASL EXTERNAL.
11 TLS uses {{TERM:X.509}} certificates to carry client and server
12 identities. All servers are required to have valid certificates,
13 whereas client certificates are optional. Clients must have a
14 valid certificate in order to authenticate using the SASL EXTERNAL