a system for secure communication , including a first security computer communicatively coupled with a client computer via an ssl connection , including a certificate creator , for receiving certificate attributes of a server computer certificate and for creating a signed certificate therefrom , and an ssl connector , for performing an ssl handshake with the client computer using the signed certificate created by said certificate creator , and a second security computer communicatively coupled with a server computer via an ssl connection , and communicatively coupled with the first security computer via a non - ssl connection , including an ssl connector , for performing an ssl handshake with the server computer using a signed certificate provided by the server computer , and a protocol appender , for appending attributes of the signed certificate provided by the server computer within a message communicated to the first security computer . a method is also described and claimed .