Because EmpowerID is a fully federated SSO, communication between EmpowerID and the Web Server is secure and occurs over SSL. This requires that the EmpowerID Web Server have a certificate issued by a trusted CA that matches the DNS of the server hosting the EmpowerID Web Service before any user can log in to EmpowerID from either the EmpowerID Management Console, Workflow Studio , or the EmpowerID Web application. In this topic we demonstrate how to configure the EmpowerID Web Server for SSL by adding a self-signed certificate to the EmpowerID Web site.
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