<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>#mtls — The Duke Post</title><description>Original tech articles from The Duke Post tagged &quot;mtls&quot;.</description><link>https://thedukepost.com/</link><item><title>The Network Was Never the Boundary: What mTLS Actually Buys Service-to-Service Traffic</title><link>https://thedukepost.com/articles/mtls-fail-closed-tradeoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thedukepost.com/articles/mtls-fail-closed-tradeoff/</guid><description>Every internal service already treats &quot;it&apos;s on the same network&quot; as proof enough. mTLS replaces that assumption with a certificate check on every connection — which is exactly why it works, and exactly why a bad rotation can take down more at once than an attacker ever could.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>security</category><author>The Duke Post</author></item></channel></rss>