Mithilfe des Zertifikats entscheiden der Client und der TLS-Terminierungsproxy dann, **wie der Rest der TCP-Kommunikation verschlüsselt werden soll**. Damit ist der **TLS-Handshake** abgeschlossen.

* Traefik (that can also handle certificate renewals)
* Caddy (that can also handle certificate renewals)
* Nginx
* HAProxy

## Let's Encrypt

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.