2025-10-30
The world is adopting anonymous credentials for digital privacy, but these systems are vulnerable to quantum computers. This post explores the cryptographic challenges and promising research paths toward building new, quantum-resistant credentials from the ground up....
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2025-10-28
Cloudflare is launching an experiment with Chrome to evaluate fast, scalable, and quantum-ready Merkle Tree Certificates, all without degrading performance or changing WebPKI trust relationships....
2025-08-22
Media over QUIC (MoQ) is a new IETF standard that resolves this conflict, creating a single foundation for sub-second, interactive streaming at a global scale. ...
2023-06-06
With the HTTP/3 RFC celebrating its 1st birthday, we examined HTTP version usage trends between May 2022 - May 2023. We found that HTTP/3 usage by browsers continued to grow, but that search engine and social media bots continued to effectively ignore the latest version of the web’s core protocol...
2022-06-06
HTTP/3 is now RFC 9114. We explore Cloudflare's view of how it is being used...
February 24, 2022 11:12 PM
HPKE (RFC 9180) was made to be simple, reusable, and future-proof by building upon knowledge from prior PKE schemes and software implementations. This article provides an overview of this new standard, going back to discuss its motivation, design goals, and development process...
October 13, 2021 12:59 PM
Cloudflare helps build a better Internet through collaboration on open and interoperable standards. This post will describe how Cloudflare contributes to the standardization process to enable incremental innovation and drive long-term architectural change....
October 13, 2021 12:59 PM
Learn more about Exported Authenticators, a new extension to TLS, currently going through the IETF standardisation process....
May 28, 2021 9:06 PM
QUIC is a new fast and secure transport protocol. Version 1 has just been published as RFC 9000 and today Cloudflare has enabled support for all customers, come try it out. ...
October 22, 2020 2:08 PM
QUIC and HTTP/3 are open standards that have been under development in the IETF for almost exactly 4 years. On October 21, 2020, following two rounds of Working Group Last Call, draft 32 of the family of documents that describe QUIC and HTTP/3 were put into IETF Last Call....
October 13, 2020 1:00 PM
Teams can now secure SaaS applications with Zero Trust rules using Cloudflare Access....
October 01, 2020 2:53 PM
After much hard work, NTS finally becomes an official RFC.This means that Network Time Security (NTS) is officially part of the collection of protocols that makes the Internet work. ...
May 08, 2020 12:46 PM
Congestion control and loss recovery play a big role in the QUIC transport protocol performance. We recently added support for CUBIC and HyStart++ to quiche, the library powering Cloudflare's QUIC, and lab-based testing shows promising results for performance in lossy network con...
April 27, 2020 11:00 AM
Starting today, you can use Cloudflare Access and Argo Tunnel to securely manage your Kubernetes cluster with the kubectl command-line tool. SSO requirements and a zero-trust model to your Kubernetes management in under 30 minutes....
December 31, 2019 7:13 PM
HTTP prioritization is important for web performance. This is the story behind a new approach recently adopted for further work in the IETF....
January 24, 2019 5:57 PM
Explore HTTP/3 from root to tip and discover the backstory of this new HTTP syntax that works on top of the IETF QUIC transport....
July 26, 2018 3:04 PM
QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is a new encrypted-by-default Internet transport protocol, that provides a number of improvements designed to accelerate HTTP traffic as well as make it more secure, with the intended goal of eventually replacing TCP and TLS on the web....
April 12, 2017 3:06 PM
We’ve been working with registrars and registries in the IETF on making DNSSEC easier for domain owners, and over the next two weeks we’ll be starting out by enabling DNSSEC automatically for .dk domains....
April 18, 2016 8:47 AM
Over the last few years, the IETF community has been focused on improving and expanding the use of the technical foundations for Internet security....
March 28, 2016 9:00 PM
If you’re in Buenos Aires on April 2-3 and are interested in building, come join the IETF Hackathon. CloudFlare and Mozilla will be working on TLS 1.3, the first new version of TLS in eight years!...
