For TDV components (Studio, all TDV server instances, and so on) to use SSL for communications among themselves, each component must have a keystore file containing its own SSL key, and a truststore file containing the SSL key for each authenticated component with which it will communicate. You can use keytool to generate a key for each component, or store an existing key that has a chain of Certificate Authority behind it. If you do not generate a key for a given component, it uses a self-signed certificate by default, which is unsafe.

The following procedure describes the setup procedure: