diff --git a/docs/guides/src/main/server/reverseproxy.adoc b/docs/guides/src/main/server/reverseproxy.adoc
index 2924c70d3c2..7d7fc3d3fe0 100644
--- a/docs/guides/src/main/server/reverseproxy.adoc
+++ b/docs/guides/src/main/server/reverseproxy.adoc
@@ -165,6 +165,9 @@ to load additional certificates from headers `CERT_CHAIN_0` to `CERT_CHAIN_9` if
 
 |certificate-chain-length
 | The maximum length of the certificate chain.
+
+|trust-proxy-verification
+| Enable trusting NGINX proxy certificate verification, instead of forwarding the certificate to keycloak and verifying it in keycloak.
 |===
 
 ==== Configuring the NGINX provider
diff --git a/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/services/x509/NginxProxySslClientCertificateLookupFactory.java b/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/services/x509/NginxProxySslClientCertificateLookupFactory.java
index 9a4a742637b..b2bdd249c9f 100644
--- a/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/services/x509/NginxProxySslClientCertificateLookupFactory.java
+++ b/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/services/x509/NginxProxySslClientCertificateLookupFactory.java
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 package org.keycloak.services.x509;
 
+import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
+import org.keycloak.Config;
 import org.keycloak.models.KeycloakSession;
 
 /**
@@ -13,12 +15,30 @@ import org.keycloak.models.KeycloakSession;
 
 public class NginxProxySslClientCertificateLookupFactory extends AbstractClientCertificateFromHttpHeadersLookupFactory {
 
+    private final static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(NginxProxySslClientCertificateLookupFactory.class);
+
     private final static String PROVIDER = "nginx";
 
+    protected final static String TRUST_PROXY_VERIFICATION = "trust-proxy-verification";
+
+    protected boolean trustProxyVerification = false;
+
+    @Override
+    public void init(Config.Scope config) {
+        super.init(config);
+        trustProxyVerification = config.getBoolean(TRUST_PROXY_VERIFICATION, false);
+        logger.tracev("{0}: ''{1}''", TRUST_PROXY_VERIFICATION, trustProxyVerification);
+    }
+
     @Override
     public X509ClientCertificateLookup create(KeycloakSession session) {
-        return new NginxProxySslClientCertificateLookup(sslClientCertHttpHeader,
-                sslChainHttpHeaderPrefix, certificateChainLength, session);
+        if (trustProxyVerification) {
+            return new NginxProxyTrustedClientCertificateLookup(sslClientCertHttpHeader,
+                    sslChainHttpHeaderPrefix, certificateChainLength);
+        } else {
+            return new NginxProxySslClientCertificateLookup(sslClientCertHttpHeader,
+                    sslChainHttpHeaderPrefix, certificateChainLength, session);
+        }
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/services/x509/NginxProxyTrustedClientCertificateLookup.java b/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/services/x509/NginxProxyTrustedClientCertificateLookup.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3438e4a94ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/services/x509/NginxProxyTrustedClientCertificateLookup.java
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+package org.keycloak.services.x509;
+
+import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
+import org.jboss.resteasy.spi.HttpRequest;
+import org.keycloak.common.util.PemException;
+import org.keycloak.common.util.PemUtils;
+
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
+import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
+
+/**
+ * The NGINX Trusted Provider verify extract end user X.509 certificate sent during TLS mutual authentication,
+ * verifies it against provided CA the and forwarded in an HTTP header along with a new header ssl-client-verify: SUCCESS.
+ *
+ * NGINX configuration must have :
+ * <code>
+ * server {
+ *    ...
+ *    ssl_client_certificate                  path-to-trusted-ca.crt;
+ *    ssl_verify_client                       on|optional;
+ *    ssl_verify_depth                        2;
+ *    ...
+ *    location / {
+ *    ...
+ *      proxy_set_header ssl-client-cert        $ssl_client_escaped_cert;
+ *    ...
+ *  }
+ * </code>
+ *
+ * Note that $ssl_client_cert is deprecated, use only $ssl_client_escaped_cert with this implementation
+ *
+ * @author <a href="mailto:youssef.elhouti@tailosoft.com">Youssef El Houti</a>
+ * @version $Revision: 1 $
+ * @since 01/09/2022
+ */
+
+public class NginxProxyTrustedClientCertificateLookup extends AbstractClientCertificateFromHttpHeadersLookup {
+
+    private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(NginxProxyTrustedClientCertificateLookup.class);
+
+    public NginxProxyTrustedClientCertificateLookup(String sslCientCertHttpHeader,
+                                                String sslCertChainHttpHeaderPrefix,
+                                                int certificateChainLength) {
+        super(sslCientCertHttpHeader, sslCertChainHttpHeaderPrefix, certificateChainLength);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected X509Certificate getCertificateFromHttpHeader(HttpRequest request, String httpHeader) throws GeneralSecurityException {
+        X509Certificate certificate = super.getCertificateFromHttpHeader(request, httpHeader);
+        if (certificate == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        String validCertificateResult = getHeaderValue(request, "ssl-client-verify");
+        if ("SUCCESS".equals(validCertificateResult)) {
+            return certificate;
+        } else {
+            log.warn("nginx could not verify the certificate: ssl-client-verify: " + validCertificateResult);
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected X509Certificate decodeCertificateFromPem(String pem) throws PemException {
+
+        if (pem == null) {
+            log.warn("End user TLS Certificate is NULL! ");
+            return null;
+        }
+        try {
+            pem = java.net.URLDecoder.decode(pem, "UTF-8");
+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+            log.error("Cannot URL decode the end user TLS Certificate : " + pem,e);
+        }
+
+        return PemUtils.decodeCertificate(pem);
+    }
+
+}