# 7 Best Practices for Certificate-Based Authentication

DevFeed: [7 Best Practices for Certificate-Based Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/7-best-practices-for-certificate-based-authentication-29600.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/certificate-authentication-best-practices/>)

Author: sakshyam.shah@goteleport.com (Sakshyam Shah)

Published: 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Teleport](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/teleport.md>)

Topics: [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [certificates](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/certificates.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Cryptography](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cryptography.md>), [hashing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hashing.md>)

Tags: [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [certificates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/certificates.md>), [cryptography](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cryptography.md>), [hash](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hash.md>), [hashing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hashing.md>), [openssl](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openssl.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [security-best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security-best-practices.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains certificate-based authentication security best practices for developers and administrators, with a focus on infrastructure access. It discusses risks including forged certificates, stolen-certificate reuse, compromised certificate authorities, weak verification, and hash collisions, and recommends established cryptographic algorithms, modules, and libraries.

## Source excerpt

We explain security best practices for both developers and administrators of certificate-based authentication, focusing on infrastructure access.