September 18, 2019 2:03 PM
Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better Internet. One of the tools used in pursuit of this goal is computer science research. We’ve learned that some of the difficult problems to solve are best approached through research...
June 21, 2019 1:00 PM
Cloudflare has always been a leader in deploying secure versions of insecure Internet protocols and making them available for free for anyone to use. In 2014, we launched one of the world’s first free, secure HTTPS service (Universal SSL) to go along with our existing free HTTP plan. ...
June 20, 2019 1:02 PM
The impact of quantum computing on cryptography conducts research and development towards a Post-Quantum era....
June 20, 2019 1:01 PM
In anticipation of wide-spread quantum computing, the transition from classical public-key cryptography primitives to post-quantum (PQ) alternatives has started....
June 20, 2019 1:00 PM
Today we are proud to release the source code of a cryptographic library we’ve been working on: a collection of cryptographic primitives written in Go, called CIRCL. ...
June 19, 2019 1:00 PM
When we launched our InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) gateway last year we were blown away by the positive reception. ...
June 18, 2019 1:00 PM
Trust on the Internet is underpinned by the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). PKI grants servers the ability to securely serve websites by issuing digital certificates, providing the foundation for encrypted and authentic communication. ...
June 17, 2019 1:01 PM
Everything from cryptography to big money lottery to quantum mechanics requires some form of randomness. But what exactly does it mean for a number to be randomly generated and where does the randomness come from?...
June 17, 2019 1:00 PM
Generating random outcomes is an essential part of everyday life; from lottery drawings and constructing competitions, to performing deep cryptographic computations. ...
June 16, 2019 5:07 PM
The Internet is an extraordinarily complex and evolving ecosystem. Its constituent protocols range from the ancient and archaic (hello FTP) to the modern and sleek (meet WireGuard), with a fair bit of everything in between. ...
February 24, 2019 5:00 PM
A few months ago, we made a first then a second announcement about Cloudflare’s involvement in Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), and our desire to make BGP Internet routing more secure....
December 25, 2018 5:42 PM
We've put together some Christmas Cryptography questions. Do you think you can solve them?...
October 18, 2018 1:00 PM
A couple of weeks ago we announced support for the encrypted Server Name Indication (SNI) TLS extension (ESNI for short). As promised, our friends at Mozilla landed support for ESNI in Firefox Nightl. ...
September 28, 2018 7:40 PM
Our customers are accustomed to us launching new services, features, and functionality at a feverish pace, but recently, we’ve been especially active. This week we celebrated our 8th Birthday Week by announcing new offerings that benefit our customers and the global Internet comm...
September 24, 2018 12:01 PM
Today we announced support for encrypted SNI, an extension to the TLS 1.3 protocol that improves privacy of Internet users....
September 21, 2018 12:00 PM
When you visit a secure website, it offers you a TLS certificate that asserts its identity. Every certificate has an expiration date, and when it’s passed due, it is no longer valid....
September 20, 2018 12:00 PM
Two years ago this week Cloudflare introduced Opportunistic Encryption, a feature that provided additional security and performance benefits to websites that had not yet moved to HTTPS....
September 19, 2018 12:01 PM
This article will talk about our approach to network security using technologies like RPKI to sign Internet routes and protect our users and customers from route hijacks and misconfigurations....
September 19, 2018 12:00 PM
We have talked about the BGP Internet routing protocol before. We have talked about how we build a more resilient network and how we can see outages at a country-level via BGP. We have even talked about the network community that is vital to the operation of the global Internet....
