# Comunication between logstash-forwarder and lumberjack

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comunication-between-logstash-forwarder-and-lumberjack/31470>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [October 1, 2015, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comunication-between-logstash-forwarder-and-lumberjack/31470 "2015-10-01T10:52:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![fprincipe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fprincipe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fprincipe)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comunication-between-logstash-forwarder-and-lumberjack/31470/1 "2015-10-01T10:52:32Z")

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Hi,  
I'm activating a comunication channel between 2 servers generating a ssl certificate as found on your site, this works fine. Problem is that in production environment my CA authority asking me to generate certificate with passphrase. How can I do this?

Regards  
Francesco

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 5:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comunication-between-logstash-forwarder-and-lumberjack/31470/2 "2017-07-06T05:27:34Z")

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