to generate a trusted root certificate, an intermediate certificate, and a server certificate.
We use `certificateAuthority(int)` to create certificates that can sign other certificates. The
int specifies how many intermediate certificates are allowed beneath it in the chain.

```java
HeldCertificate rootCertificate = new HeldCertificate.Builder()
    .certificateAuthority(1)
    .build();

Before Let's Encrypt, these **HTTPS certificates** were sold by trusted third parties.

The process to acquire one of these certificates used to be cumbersome, require quite some paperwork and the certificates were quite expensive.

But then **[Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/)** was created.

on-300-000-iranians-using-fake-google-certificate.html). It also assumes your HTTPS servers’ certificates are signed by a certificate authority.

Use [CertificatePinner](https://square.github.io/okhttp/5.x/okhttp/okhttp3/-certificate-pinner/) to restrict which certificates and certificate authorities are trusted. Certificate pinning increases security, but limits your server team’s abilities to update their TLS certificates. **Do not use certificate pinning without the blessing of your server’s...

 * They specify that the call may be plaintext (`http`) or encrypted (`https`), but not which cryptographic algorithms should be used. Nor do they specify how to verify the peer's certificates (the [HostnameVerifier](https://developer.android.com/reference/javax/net/ssl/HostnameVerifier.html)) or which certificates can be trusted (the [SSLSocketFactory](https://developer.android.com/reference/org/apache/http/conn/ssl/SSLSocketFactory.html)).

- 📞 [Traefik](https://traefik.io) as a reverse proxy / load balancer.
- 🚢 Deployment instructions using Docker Compose, including how to set up a frontend Traefik proxy to handle automatic HTTPS certificates.

      sink: BufferedSink,
      certificates: List<Certificate>,
    ) {
      try {
        sink.writeDecimalLong(certificates.size.toLong()).writeByte('\n'.code)
        for (element in certificates) {
          val bytes = element.encoded
          val line = bytes.toByteString().base64()
          sink.writeUtf8(line).writeByte('\n'.code)
        }
      } catch (e: CertificateEncodingException) {

And there has to be something in charge of **renewing the HTTPS certificates**, it could be the same component or it could be something different.

### Example Tools for HTTPS { #example-tools-for-https }

Some of the tools you could use as a TLS Termination Proxy are:

* Traefik
    * Automatically handles certificates renewals ✨
* Caddy
    * Automatically handles certificates renewals ✨
* Nginx

signatures on certificates that use SHA-1 based signature algorithms.

Go 1.24 changes the default value of the [`x509usepolicies`
setting.](/pkg/crypto/x509/#CreateCertificate) from `0` to `1`. When marshalling
certificates, policies are now taken from the
[`Certificate.Policies`](/pkg/crypto/x509/#Certificate.Policies) field rather
than the

- The Pod Certificates feature moved to beta. The `PodCertificateRequest` feature gate is set disabled by default. To use the feature, users must enable the certificates API groups in `v1beta1` and enable the `PodCertificateRequest` feature gate. The `UserAnnotations` field was added to the `PodCertificateProjection` API and the corresponding...

# Behind a Proxy { #behind-a-proxy }

In many situations, you would use a **proxy** like Traefik or Nginx in front of your FastAPI app.

These proxies could handle HTTPS certificates and other things.

## Proxy Forwarded Headers { #proxy-forwarded-headers }