Introduction
Last year we got a requirement to ensure encrypted connections to our SQL Server instances. Before, we did not think it was necessary – all our instances were accessed by application services internally. Still, secure connections protect the instance and clients from attacks as man-in-the middles, so we did it.
Connection encryption differs from Transparent Data Encryption, but you need a certificate in both cases. In this article, we describe the procedure of setting up an encrypted connection for SQL Server instances.
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