Thanks Dinesh.
That is ok. Having mutual TLS ensures that the clients authenticate
themselves by certificates too.
The other authentication of static username/password adds the next layer of
authentication.
That ways a hacker now needs two keys (certificate and password) to connect
to the cluster.


On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 3:16 PM Dinesh Joshi <djo...@apache.org> wrote:

> It sort of supports it. You still need to send in the username/password
> credentials along with the client certificate to authenticate. Cassandra
> will not derive the identity purely from the client certificate.
>
> Dinesh
>
> > On Sep 21, 2021, at 11:59 AM, S G <sg.online.em...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Does anyone know if opensource Cassandra support mutual-TLS ?
> > The documentation doesn't conclusively deny or accept the support for
> the same.
> >
> > Thanks !
>
>

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