The forum kicked off with a series of presentations on the current DDoS landscape, the cyber security trends, the Serverless computing and Cloudflare’s Workers. Trey Quinn, Cloudflare Global Head of Solution Engineering, gave a brief introduction on the evolution of edge computing.

We also invited business and thought leaders across various industries to share their insights and best practices on cyber security and performance strategy. Some of the keynote and penal sessions included live demos from our customers.

At this event, the guests had gained first-hand knowledge on the latest technology. They also learned some insider tactics that will help them to protect their business, to accelerate the performance and to identify the quick-wins in a complex internet environment.

To conclude the event, we arrange some dinner for the guests to network and to enjoy a cool summer night.

Through this event, Cloudflare has strengthened the connection with the local tech community. The success of the event cannot be separated from the constant improvement from Cloudflare and the continuous support from our customers in India.

As the old saying goes, भारत महान है (India is great). India is such an important market in the region. Cloudflare will enhance the investment and engagement in providing better services and user experience for India customers.

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Cloudflare is organizing a meetup in Seattle on Tuesday, June 25th and we hope you can join. We’ll be bringing together members of the developers community and Cloudflare users for an evening of discussion about serverless compute and the infinite number of use cases for deploying code at the edge.

To kick things off, our guest speaker Devin Ellis will share how Moz uses Cloudflare Workers to reduce time to first byte 30-70% by caching dynamic content at the edge. Kirk Schwenkler, Solutions Engineering Lead at Cloudflare, will facilitate this discussion and share his perspective on how to grow and secure businesses at scale.

Next up, Developer Advocate Kristian Freeman will take you through a live demo of Workers and highlight new features of the platform. This will be an interactive session where you can try out Workers for free and develop your own applications using our new command-line tool.

Food and drinks will be served til close so grab your laptop and a friend and come on by!

View Event Details & Register Here

Agenda:

• 5:00 pm Doors open, food and drinks
• 5:30 pm Customer use case by Devin and Kirk
• 6:00 pm Workers deep dive with Kristian
• 6:30 - 8:30 pm Networking, food and drinks

PicsArt office, Yerevan

• 18:30-19:00   Doors open, food and drinks    

• 19:00 - 19:30   Areg Harutyunyan, Engineering Lead of Argo Tunnel at Cloudflare, "Cloudflare Overview / Cloudflare Security: How Argo Tunnel and Cloudflare Access enable effortless security for your team"

• 19:30-20:00    Gerasim Hovhannisyan, Director IT Infrastructure Operations at PicsArt, "Scaling to 10PB Content Delivery with Cloudflare's Global Network"

• 20:00-20:30   Olga Skobeleva, Solutions Engineer at Cloudflare, "Security: the Serverless Future"

• 20:30-21:00   Networking, food and drinks

View Event Details & Register Here »

We'll hope to meet you soon. Here are some photos from the meetup at PicsArt last year:

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Are you based in Moscow? Cloudflare is partnering with Yandex to produce a meetup this month in Yandex's Moscow headquarters.  We would love to invite you to join us to learn about the newest in the Internet industry. You'll join Cloudflare's users, stakeholders from the tech community, and Engineers and Product Managers from both Cloudflare and Yandex.

Tuesday, May 30, 2019: 18:00 - 22:00

Location: Yandex - Ulitsa L'va Tolstogo, 16, Moskva, Russia, 119021

Talks will include "Performance and scalability at Cloudflare”, "Security at Yandex Cloud", and "Edge computing".

Speakers will include Evgeny Sidorov - Deputy Head of Services Security Team at Yandex, Ivan Babrou, Performance Engineer at Cloudflare, Alex Cruz Farmer, Product Manager for Firewall at Cloudflare, and Olga Skobeleva, Solutions Engineer at Cloudflare.

Agenda:

18:00 - 19:00 - Registration and welcome cocktail

19:00 - 19:10 - Cloudflare overview

19:10 - 19:40 - Performance and scalability at Cloudflare

19:40 - 20:10 - Security at Yandex Cloud

20:10 - 20:40 - Cloudflare security solutions and industry security trends

20:40 - 21:10 - Edge computing

Q&A

The talks will be followed by food, drinks, and networking.

View Event Details & Register Here »

We'll hope to meet you soon.

Разработчики, присоединяйтесь к Cloudflare и Яндексу на нашей предстоящей встрече в Москве!

Cloudflare сотрудничает с Яндексом, чтобы организовать мероприятие в этом месяце в штаб-квартире Яндекса. Мы приглашаем вас присоединиться к встрече посвященной новейшим достижениям в интернет-индустрии. На мероприятии соберутся клиенты Cloudflare, профессионалы из технического сообщества, инженеры из Cloudflare и Яндекса.

Вторник, 30 мая: 18:00 - 22:00

Место встречи: Яндекс, улица Льва Толстого, 16, Москва, Россия, 119021

Доклады будут включать себя такие темы как «Решения безопасности Cloudflare и тренды в области безопасности», «Безопасность в Yandex Cloud», “Производительность и масштабируемость в Cloudflare и «Edge computing» от докладчиков из Cloudflare и Яндекса.

Среди докладчиков будут Евгений Сидоров, Заместитель руководителя группы безопасности сервисов в Яндексе, Иван Бобров, Инженер по производительности в Cloudflare, Алекс Круз Фармер, Менеджер продукта Firewall в Cloudflare, и Ольга Скобелева, Инженер по внедрению в Cloudflare.

Программа:

18:00 - 19:00 - Регистрация, напитки и общение

19:00 - 19:10 - Обзор Cloudflare

19:10 - 19:40 - Производительность и масштабируемость в Cloudflare

19:40 - 20:10 - Безопасность в Яндекс.Облаке

20:10 - 20:40 - Решения безопасности Cloudflare и тренды в области безопасности

20:40 - 21:10 - Примеры Serverless-решений по безопасности

Q&A

Вслед за презентациям последует общение, еда и напитки.

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Ждем встречи с вами!

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Are you based in Boston, London, or New York? There's a lot going on this month from the London Internet Summit to Developer Week New York and additional meetups in Boston and New York. Drop by our events and connect with the Cloudflare community.

Tuesday, June 12: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Location: Drift - 222 Berkley St, 6th Floor Boston, MA 02116

Join us at Drift HQ for a panel discussion on user experience, developer experience, and integration, featuring Elias Torres from Drift and Connor Peshek and Ollie Hsieh from Cloudflare.

The panelists will speak about their experiences developing user-facing applications, best practices they learned in the process, the integration of the Drift app and the Cloudflare Apps platform, and future platform features.

View Event Details & Register Here »

Thursday, June 14: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location: The Tobacco Dock - Wapping Ln, St Katharine's & Wapping, London E1W 2SF

The Internet Summit is focused on how the Internet will evolve over the next five years. The day-long event will feature a series of fireside chats, intimate panel discussions, and lively conversations from some of the brightest thought leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, researchers, and operators.

We don’t spend much time talking about Cloudflare at the Internet Summit but instead facilitate discussions with the people who inspire or challenge us.

Register & See Videos from Last Year Here »

Tuesday, June 19: 5:45 pm - 7:45 pm

Location: Ramona - 113 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Developer Experience & User Experience: Tried & True Methods for Improving Both

Join us for a panel discussion on user experience, developer experience, and methods of improving both, featuring Jade Wang, Jess Rosenberg, Connor Peshek and Ollie Hsieh from Cloudflare, and moderated by Andrew Fitch from Cloudflare.

Our panelists will speak about their experiences developing user-facing applications, developer-facing tools, best practices they learned in the process, and future platform features.

View Event Details & Register Here »

Wednesday, June 20: 10:00 am - 10:50 am

Location: Brooklyn Expo Center - 72 Noble St, Brooklyn, NY 11222

If you happen to be attending Developer Week New York, check out Jade Wang’s conference talk as well.

About 10% of all Internet requests flow through Cloudflare’s network. In addition to providing performance and security for over 7 million websites, Cloudflare exposes our entire infrastructure via a standard programmatic interface.

In this talk, Jade will cover:

• Improving mobile app performance, especially over spotty network connections (mobile SDK)

• Access control at the edge (Cloudflare Access)

• How to write JavaScript that runs on Cloudflare’s edge (Cloudflare Workers)

• Write plugins that other people can install onto their websites (Cloudflare Apps)

• If you could leverage 151+ data centers worldwide, what would you build?

View Event Details & Register Here »

We'll hope to meet you soon.

At the end of March, Kenton Varda, tech lead and architect for Cloudflare Workers, traveled to London and led a talk about the Rise of Edge Compute where he laid out our vision for the future of the Internet as a platform.

Several of those who were unable to attend on-site asked for us to produce a recording. Well, we've completed the audio edits, so here it is!

Visit the Workers category on Cloudflare's community forum to learn more about Workers and share questions, answers, and ideas with other developers.

Visit the Community Forum Here »

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Are you based in Copenhagen or London? Drop by one or all of these five events.

Ross Guarino and Terin Stock, both Systems Engineers at Cloudflare are traveling to Europe to lead Go and Kubernetes talks in Copenhagen. They'll then join Junade Ali and lead talks on their use of Go, Kubernetes, and Cloudflare’s Mobile SDK at Cloudflare's London office.

My Developer Relations teammates and I are visiting these cities over the next two weeks to produce these events with Ross, Terin, and Junade. We’d love to meet you and invite you along.

Our trip will begin with two meetups and a conference talk in Copenhagen.

Tuesday, 1 May: 17:00-21:00

Location: Trifork Copenhagen - Borgergade 24B, 1300 København K

How to extend your Kubernetes cluster

A brief introduction to controllers, webhooks and CRDs. Ross and Terin will talk about how Cloudflare’s internal platform builds on Kubernetes.

Speakers: Ross Guarino and Terin Stock

View Event Details & Register Here »

Wednesday, 2 May: 18:00-21:00

Location: Falcon.io - H.C. Andersen Blvd. 27, København

Talk 1: Building Go with Bazel

Fast and Reproducible go builds with Bazel. Learn how to remove Makefiles from your repositories.

Speaker: Ross Guarino

Talk 2: Internationalization in Go

Explore making effective use of Go’s internationalization and localization packages and easily making your applications world-friendly.

Speaker: Terin Stock

View Event Details & Register Here »

Friday, 4 May: 14:45-15:20

Location: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 - Bella Center, Center Blvd. 5, 2300 København

If you happen to be attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018, check out Terin and Ross’s conference talk as well.

This session demonstrates how to leverage Kubernetes Controllers and Initializers as a framework for building transparent extensions of your Kubernetes cluster. Using a live coding exercise and demo, this presentation will showcase the possibilities of the basic programming paradigms the Kubernetes API server makes easy.

Speakers: Ross Guarino and Terin Stock

View Event Details & Register Here »

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When KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 concludes, we're all heading to the Cloudflare London office where we are hosting two more meetups.

Wednesday, 9 May: 18:00-20:00

Location: Cloudflare London - 25 Lavington St, Second floor | SE1 0NZ London

This session demonstrates how to leverage Kubernetes Controllers and Initializers as a framework for building transparent extensions of your Kubernetes cluster. Using a live coding exercise and demo, this presentation will showcase the possibilities of the basic programming paradigms the Kubernetes API server makes easy. As an SRE, learn to build custom integrations directly into the Kubernetes API that transparently enhance the developer experience.

Speakers: Ross Guarino and Terin Stock

View Event Details & Register Here »

Thursday, 10 May: 18:00-20:00

Location: Cloudflare London - 25 Lavington St, Second floor | SE1 0NZ London

Whether you're building an e-commerce app or a new mobile game, chances are you'll be needing some network functionality at some point when building a mobile app. Network performance can vary dramatically between carriers, networks, and APIs, but far too often mobile apps are tested inconsistent conditions with the same decent network performance. Fortunately we can iterate on our apps by collecting real-life performance measurements from your users; however, unfortunately existing mobile app analytics platforms only provide visibility into in-app performance but have no knowledge about outgoing network call.

This talk will cover how you can easily collect vital performance data from your users at no cost and then use this data to improve your apps' reliability and experience, discussing the tips and tricks needed to boost app performance.

Speaker: Junade Ali

View Event Details & Register Here »

Ross Guarino is a Systems Engineer at Cloudflare in charge of the technical direction of the internal platform. He’s determined to improve the lives of developers building and maintaining everything from a simple function to complex globally distributed systems.

Terin Stock is a long-time engineer at Cloudflare, currently working on building an internal Kubernetes cluster. By night, he hacks on building new hardware projects. Terin is also a member of gulp.js core team and the author of the Sticker Standard.

Junade Ali is a software engineer who is specialised in computer security and software architecture. Currently, Junade works at Cloudflare as a polymath, and helps make the Internet more secure and faster; prior to this, he was a technical lead at some of the UK's leading digital agencies before moving into architecting software for mission-critical road-safety systems.

We'll hope to meet you soon!

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Are you based in London or Barcelona? Drop by the Cloudflare London office to meet Kenton Varda, lead architect of Cloudflare Workers, front end developers Marta Bondyra and David Sancho from Typeform, or drop by the Typeform office in Barcelona to hear from Jason Harmon, Typeform’s Chief Platform Officer. My Developer Relations teammates and I are visiting these cities over the next two weeks. We’d love to meet you and invite you to the three events we’re hosting.

Our first stop is the Cloudflare London office. Developers from our Cloudflare Apps partner, Typeform, are leading a talk on Tuesday, March 27th. The lead architect of Cloudflare Workers, Kenton Varda, is going to lead a follow-up talk about edge computing on Wednesday, March 28th.

Tuesday, March 27th: 18:00-20:00

Location: Cloudflare London - 25 Lavington St, Second floor | SE1 0NZ London

Creating software from scratch, although fun, can be time consuming and expensive. Marta and David, both developers at Typeform, will tell you why their teams built tools to make the lives of developers a little easier and what they learned along the way.

View Event Details & Register Here »

Wednesday, March 28th: 18:00-20:00

Location: Cloudflare London - 25 Lavington St, Second floor | SE1 0NZ London

Edge Compute is the future of how complex software systems will be designed and built. Join Kenton Varda, the tech lead and architect for the Cloudflare Workers project, as he lays out our vision for the future of the Internet as a platform and provides a detailed look at the architecture of Workers.

View Event Details & Register Here »

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Our second stop of the trip is Typeform's office in Barcelona. Here, the Cloudflare team will speak about performance and security after an introductory talk by Typeform's Chief Platform Officer on Tuesday, April 3rd.

Tuesday, April 3rd: 18:00-20:15

Location: Typeform - Carrer de Bac de Roda, 163 | 08018 Barcelona

Learn about the technologies behind cutting-edge performance, security, and edge development solutions. Jason Harmon, the Chief Platform Officer at Typeform, will open with a keynote talk. Connor Peshek and Jade Wang, both from Cloudflare, will cover topics relating to the way a network stays connected, web acceleration, mobile network optimization, and the future of edge compute.

View Event Details & Register Here »

We'll hope to meet you soon!

If you’re a web dev / devops / etc. meetup group that also works toward building a faster, safer Internet, I want to support your awesome group by buying you pizza. If your group’s focus falls within one of the subject categories below and you’re willing to give us a 30 second shout out and tweet a photo of your group and @Cloudflare, your meetup’s pizza expense will be reimbursed.

Get Your Pizza $ Reimbursed »

I’m Andrew Fitch and I work on the Developer Relations team at Cloudflare. One of the things I like most about working in DevRel is empowering community members who are already doing great things out in the world. Whether they’re starting conferences, hosting local meetups, or writing educational content, I think it’s important to support them in their efforts and reward them for doing what they do. Community organizers are the glue that holds developers together socially. Let’s support them and make their lives easier by taking care of the pizza part of the equation.

1. We want web developers to target the apps platform

2. We want more people to think about working at Cloudflare

3. Some people only know of Cloudflare as a CDN, but it’s actually a security company and does much more than that. General awareness helps tell the story of what Cloudflare is about.

We want to work with groups that are closely aligned with Cloudflare, groups which focus on web development, web security, devops, or tech ops. We often work with language-specific meetups (such as Go London User Group) or diversity & inclusion meetups (such as Women Who Code Portland). We’d also love to work with college student groups and any other coding groups which are focused on sharing technical knowledge with the community.

To get sponsored pizza, groups must be focused on...

• Web performance & optimization

• Front-end frameworks

• Language-specific (JavaScript / PHP / Go / Lua / etc.)

• Diversity & inclusion meetups for web devs / devops / tech ops

• Workshops / classes for web devs / devops / tech ops

1. Interested groups need to read our Cloudflare Meetup Group Pizza Reimbursement Rules document.

2. If the group falls within the requirements, the group should proceed to schedule their meetup and pull the Cloudflare Introductory Slides ahead of time.

3. At the event, an organizer should present the Cloudflare Introductory Slides at the beginning, giving us a 30 second shout out, and take a photo of the group in front of the slides. Someone from the group should Tweet the photo and @Cloudflare, so our Community Manager may retweet.

4. After the event, an organizer will need to fill out our reimbursement form where they will upload a completed W-9, their mailing address, group details, and the link to the Tweet.

5. Within a month, the organizer should have a check from Cloudflare (and some laptop stickers for their group, if they want) in their hands.

Go London User Group (GLUG)

The Go London User Group is a London-based community for anyone interested in the Go programming language.

GLUG provides offline opportunities to:

• Discuss Go and related topics

• Socialize with friendly people who are interested in Go

• Find or fill Go-related jobs

They want GLUG to be a diverse and inclusive community. As such all attendees, organizers and sponsors are required to follow the community code of conduct.

This group’s mission is very much in alignment with Cloudflare’s guidelines, so we sponsored the pizza for their October Gophers event.

Women Who Code Portland

Women Who Code’s mission statement

Women Who Code is a global nonprofit dedicated to inspiring women to excel in technology careers by creating a global, connected community of women in technology.

What they offer

• Monthly Networking Nights

• Study Nights (JavaScript, React, DevOps, Design + Product, Algorithms)

• Technical Workshops

• Community Events (Hidden Figures screening, Women Who Strength Train, Happy Hours, etc.)

• Free or discounted tickets to conferences

Women Who Code are a great example of an inclusive technical group. Cloudflare reimbursed them for their pizza at their October JavaScript Study Night.

GDG Phoenix / PHX Android

GDG Phoenix / PHX Android group is for anyone interested in Android design and development. All skill levels are welcome. Participants are welcome to the meet up to hang out and watch or be part of the conversation at events.

This group is associated with the Google Developer Group program and coordinate activities with the national organization. Group activities are not exclusively Android related, however, they can cover any technology.

Cloudflare sponsored their October event “How espresso works . . . Android talk with Michael Bailey”.

I hope a lot of awesome groups around the world will take advantage of our offer. Enjoy the pizza!

Get Your Pizza $ Reimbursed »

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A little while ago, we did exactly this and ran a meetup in the Cloudflare London office. Ivan Rustic from Hardenize was our guest speaker, he demonstrated how Hardenize developed a Cloudflare App to help build a culture of security. I presented two other talks which included a primer on how the Cloudflare network is architected and wrapped up with a discussion on how you can build and monetise your very own Cloudflare App.

Since we presented this meet-up, I've received a few requests to share the videos of all the talks. You can find all three of the talks from our last London office meet-up in this blog post.

If you're interested in the kinds of Denial-of-Service attacks that Cloudflare faces, and how we help mitigate them; check out our Learning Centre for further information on DDOS mitigation.

The Cloudflare Apps platform allows developers to ship their code to any of the 6 million websites on the Cloudflare network. When building on our apps platform, your code can be previewed and deployed on any Cloudflare site in seconds. Browse the apps documentation to learn more about building on Cloudflare Apps

We'd love for you to join us at our next meet-up. To stay up-to-date on local events, you can join our Meetup groups in San Francisco, Austin and, of course, London. Want to request a Cloudflare meetup or workshop in your city? Please drop a line to community@cloudflare.com.

We’ll start the evening at 6:00p.m. with time for networking, followed up with short talks by leading experts starting at 6:30p.m. Pizza and beer are provided! RSVP here.

Here are the confirmed speakers:

Deirdre is a senior software engineer at Brightcove, where she is trying to secure old and new web applications. Her interests include applied cryptography, secure defaults, elliptic curves and their isogenies.

Post-quantum cryptography is an active field of research in developing new cryptosystems that will be resistant to attack by future quantum computers. Recently a somewhat obscure area, isogeny-based cryptography, has been getting more attention, including impressive speed and compression optimizations and robust security analyses, bringing it into regular discussion alongside other post-quantum candidates. This talk will cover isogeny-based crypto, specifically these recents results regarding supersingular isogeny diffie-hellman, which is a possible replacement for the ephemeral key exchanges in use today.

Maya Kaczorowski is a Product Manager at Google in Security & Privacy. Her work focuses on encryption at rest and encryption key management.

How does Google encrypt data at rest? This talk will cover how Google shards and encrypts data by default, Google's key management system, root of trust, and Google's cryptographic library. Google Cloud Platform encrypts customer content stored at rest, without any action from the customer, using one or more encryption mechanisms. We will also discuss best practices in implementing encryption for your storage system(s).

Andrew Ayer is a security researcher interested in the Web's Public Key Infrastructure. He is the founder of SSLMate, an automated SSL certificate service, and the author of Cert Spotter, an open source Certificate Transparency monitor. Andrew participates in the IETF's Public Notary Transparency working group and recently used Certificate Transparency logs to uncover over 100 improperly-issued Symantec certificates.

Certificate Transparency improves the security of the Web PKI by logging every publicly-trusted SSL certificate to public, verifiable, append-only logs, which domain owners can monitor to detect improperly-issued certificates for their domains. Certificate Transparency was created by Google and is now being standardized by the IETF. Beginning October 2017, Chrome will require all new certificates be logged with Certificate Transparency.

This talk will explore how Certificate Transparency works, how domain owners can take advantage of it, and what the future holds for Certificate Transparency.

We’ll start the evening at 6:00p.m. with time for networking, followed up with short talks by leading experts starting at 6:30p.m. Pizza and beer are provided! RSVP here.

Here are the confirmed speakers:

Emily Stark is a software engineer on the Google Chrome security team, where she focuses on making TLS more usable and secure. She spends lots of time analyzing field data about the HTTPS ecosystem and improving web platform features like Referrer Policy and Content Security Policy that help developers migrate their sites to HTTPS. She has also worked on the DevTools security panel and the browser plumbing that supports other security UI surfaces like the omnibox. (That green lock icon is more complicated than you'd think!)

Previously, she was a core developer at Meteor Development Group, where she worked on web framework security and internal infrastructure, and a graduate student researching client-side cryptography in web browsers. Emily has a master's degree from MIT and a bachelor's degree from Stanford, both in computer science.

In theory, sending an HTTP request over TLS is a simple matter of performing a handshake and validating a certificate chain. In practice, however, client, server, and network misconfigurations get in the way, causing hundreds of millions of HTTPS errors in Chrome every month. This talk will describe projects and results from the Chrome security team's work to understand these errors, fix as many of them as possible, and prevent new problems from cropping up.

Jon McLachlan leads security engineering at Symphony. Prior to joining Symphony he was a senior security engineer at Apple where he worked on foundational protection mechanisms for iTunes as well as digital rights management. Jon has 8 patents to his name, all in the area of security. He is a passionate biker and husband.

Symphony has taken a unique approach to delivering enterprise-grade secure communications. During the presentation you will learn how most cloud services today require an act of faith on behalf of the customer who must ‘trust’ the service provider. Symphony’s approach means that Symphony employees are unable to see customer data – it’s protected using keys controlled by customer-owned infrastructure. Symphony sets a new benchmark for safe and secure cloud communications.

An Introduction to Symphony Security will explore how we selected our threat model, some of the technical challenges that the threat model presented, and how we overcame these technical challenges to deliver a secure, seamless communication platform.

Eric Rescorla from Mozilla will be speaking about TLS 1.3

We had a great turnout last time. Here are some videos of the talks:

Brian Warner: Magic Wormhole.

Zakir Durumeric: Real World Email Delivery Security.

CloudFlare is a big user of Lua, LuaJIT, NGINX and OpenResty and happy to be able to sponsor Yichun's work on this fast, flexible platform.

The slides and videos from the meetup are now available for viewing by people who were unable to be there in person.

The slides are here.

The slides can be found here

Yichun's slides are here

If you are interested in being present at the next OpenResty Meetup by sure to follow the meetup itself.

Our last DNS meetup was a packed house with Paul Mockapetris, the original inventor of DNS. We learned why DNS answers have a question count but always only one question, why underscores aren’t allowed in domain names, and the history of how DNS came to be.

Our next meetup is with the infamous Dan Kaminsky –– there’s even a DNS attack named after him, the Kaminsky attack. Dan is known for his work finding a core flaw in the Internet, and then leading the charge to repair it. He is an invited expert to the W3C, the guiding organization for the Web, and co-founded the cybersecurity firm White Ops. He is even one of the seven "key shareholders" able to restore the Internet's Domain Name System if necessary.

We’ll cover how Dan discovered the Kaminsky attack, the future of DNS and privacy, how to secure email with DNS, and what are the policy implications of governments allowing DNS blocking. It’s going to be a really great event - we can’t wait to see you there. The meetup is at Gandi’s headquarters: 121 2nd Street, San Francisco at 6PM PST on Tuesday, May 10th, 2016. To claim your spot, RSVP here. If you’re interested in watching the livestream, we’ll post the link on the meetup page closer to the event.

In this series, we’ve invited experts from academia and industry to talk about the cryptographic protocols they are working on and to share experiences around deploying cryptographic applications in the real world. This is the place to geek out on crypto!

These talks are intended to explore interesting new crypto topics in an accessible way. It aims to be informative and thought provoking, and practical examples are encouraged.

We’ll start the evening at 6:00p.m. with time for networking, followed up with short talks by leading experts. Pizza and beer are provided!

Whether you're a cryptography hobbyist, an industry expert or just interested in the subject, come visit CloudFlare’s world headquarters at 6:00pm on April 21st.

RSVP here on Meetup.com.

The confirmed speakers for April 21st are Brian Warner, Zakir Durumeric and Whitney Merrill.

"magic-wormhole" is a simple tool to move files from one computer to another, like "scp" but without the setup. By telling the recipient just a few secret words, the file is safely encrypted and delivered directly to the correct machine. The talk will explain the security mechanics, the cryptography (NaCl and SPAKE2), and how to use the underlying open-source library in your own applications.

Brian Warner is a security engineer and software developer, having worked at Mozilla on Firefox Sync, the Add-On SDK, and Persona. He is co-founder of the Tahoe-LAFS distributed secure filesystem, and develops secure storage and communication tools.

Is your email being sent in the clear? While PGP and S/MIME provide end-to-end encrypted mail, most users have yet to adopt these practices, and for users who have, metadata, such as the subject, sender, and recipient, remain visible everywhere along a message’s path. SMTP—the ubiquitous mail transport protocol—has evolved over the years to add encryption and authentication, both of which take place behind the scenes and help guard against surveillance and spam. While these features are being increasingly deployed, our research shows that they are almost always configured in vulnerable ways—the details of which are hidden from the users sending and receiving mail. Even more disturbingly, these vulnerabilities are being widely exploited in the wild: in seven countries, more than 20% of inbound Gmail messages are downgraded to cleartext by network-based attacks. In the most severe case, 96% of messages sent from Tunisia to Gmail are downgraded to cleartext. In this talk, I’ll introduce protocols used to protect SMTP and and describe the current state of mail security on the Internet. I'll describe several commonly occurring attacks, weaknesses in the protocols we're using and recent proposals for helping secure email transport.

Zakir Durumeric is a Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan and Google Ph.D. Fellow in Computer Security. His research focuses on network security, particularly how global network measurement can improve the security of heterogeneous distributed systems. Zakir is widely known for creating ZMap—the Internet-wide network scanner capable of scanning the entire public IPv4 address space in minutes—and Censys—the search engine that allows researchers to analyze the devices that compose the public Internet. His work has been awarded numerous distinctions, including the IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize and best paper awards from USENIX Security, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, and ACM Internet Measurement Conference. He was named one of this year's MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators under 35.

How does encryption, the user, and the law function? I'll break down the interesting issues surrounding the law and encryption. I'll briefly discuss the 1st, 4th, and 5th Amendments and break down why the All Writs Act is everything anyone wants to talk about.

Whitney Merrill is an attorney at the Federal Trade Commission in San Francisco, California where she works on consumer protection issues involving false advertising, deception, privacy, and data security. She received her Masters in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her law degree from the University of Illinois College of Law. She specializes in information security, computer crime, privacy, surveillance, and Internet law. Her graduate research focused on Android privacy, digital forensics, and the legal issues surrounding encryption. While at UIUC, she was a member of the Illinois Security Lab, and in her spare time Whitney runs the Crypto & Privacy Village at DEF CON. She loves solving and creating puzzles.

Disclaimer:

Whitney Merrill is speaking in her personal capacity and not as a representative of the Federal Trade Commission. These are the views of the individual and do not represent the views of the Federal Trade Commission or any one Commissioner.

To whet your appetite, check out some videos from previous CloudFlare Crypto meetups.

Steve Weis: Crypto Projects that might not suck.

Adam Langley: Fun with hashes.

Jonathan Matson: U.S. Controls on Open Source Cryptographic Code.

Null is a community for hackers and security enthusiasts. Monthly meetups are organized in a number of Asian cities. Read more at http://null.co.in/.

The lineup for the February meetup:

• All you ever wanted to know about DDoS attacks Marek Majkowski

• Security News Bytes Drupan Chandarana

• DNS Hijacking Michael Smith

If you’d like to sign up for the event, you can do so here:

• http://www.meetup.com/Null-Singapore-The-Open-Security-Community/events/228606152/

What: Null Singapore - The Open Security Community meetup

When: February 24th: 6:45pm-8:45pm

Where: The Working Capitol, "The Commons" Room,1 Keong Saik Road, Singapore 089109

Registration isrequired

CloudFlare is actively hiring in Singapore!

Education, expertise, and community: these themes define Meetups at CloudFlare. Meetups in our office bring together industry leaders, academics, and field experts to examine topics ranging from the Go programming language, to databases, to cryptography, and more.

We’re creating a space for people interested in learning about, and hashing-out, specialized topics together; check out CloudFlare’s upcoming Meetups here.

Our latest series on cryptography covers a broad range of topics including elliptic curves, secure messaging, password-authenticated encryption, lattice-based cryptography, new block chain modes, fully homomorphic cryptography, and memory-hard hashing algorithms.

The next crypto Meetup is on July 16th! We’re still looking for presenters: if interested, email us at cloudflare-team@cloudflare.com.

Join us sometime!

Here’s a taste of our May 8th Meetup:

CloudFlare welcomed Brian Warner, a security engineer from Mozilla, to talk about cryptography. Brian’s work focuses on the security of the Mozilla ecosystem including Firefox Sync and Firefox accounts. During his session, he described the changes Firefox has made in the last few years, three different protocols they’ve used, as well as problems Mozilla faced and the compromises made between usability and security.

Check out Brian’s talk here.

CloudFlare was also excited to have cryptographer and software engineer Michael Hamburg, PhD from Cryptography Research speaking on elliptic curves. Michael wrote his dissertation under the supervision of Dan Boneh at Stanford. His research indicates that elliptic curves have been the "next big thing" in cryptography for a while; however, they’re tricky to implement securely. Michael explains how Montgomery and Edwards curves give faster and simpler implementations, and Dan Bernstein's Curve25519 (aka Ed25519) have caught on, so there is increasing interest in a stronger curve that doesn’t sacrifice as much speed or simplicity. In this talk, he discusses his research findings—specifically, the "Ed448-Goldilocks” curve.

View Michael’s presentation here.

There's been a surge of interest in end-to-end security for applications like chat, text messaging, and email; in light of this, CloudFlare’s latest Meetup group included independent cryptographic consultant Trevor Perrin. Trevor’s work focuses on designing and reviewing cryptographic systems, making him well placed to inform our community. Moving away from deploying existing protocols like OTR, PGP, and S/MIME, Trevor discusses a number of projects working on "next-generation" protocols to improve usability, security, and protection for new forms of communication.

Hear Trevor’s thoughts on protocol designs using TextSecure, Pond, and more—here.

Remember: The next crypto meetup is on July 16th! If you are interested in presenting, please email us at cloudflare-team@cloudflare.com.

At CloudFlare, we love connecting with our communities, and so we are excited to announce two meetups to be hosted here at the CloudFlare headquarters in San Francisco next month.

All Things Crypto - 5/8/2014

On Thursday, May 8, Nick Sullivan from the security engineering team at CloudFlare will host a meetup with several cryptography industry experts. The meetup will consist of three speakers giving quick 15-20 minute presentations followed by Q&A. Speakers and topics include: Trevor Perrin who will discuss "next-generation" protocols in end-to-end security for applications like chat, text messaging, and email, Brian Warner who will be discussing Firefox Sync, and Michael Hamburg who will discuss new developments in Elliptic Curve Cryptography. If you are interested in anything and everything about cryptography, then this meetup is for you! Doors open at 6:00pm PDT. RSVP on the CloudFlare Meetup page

GoSF - 5/21/2014

GoSF is a meetup group that has been around since 2011 and caters to those who program in Go. On Wednesday, May 21, CloudFlare will be hosting GoSF’s Go Session 2 - Programming in Go (for Experienced Devs). Go Sessions are part of a program designed by GoSF members to provide a guided pair-programming experience to increase knowledge of using Go in production. Experienced Go developers will lead coding exercises that will run you through Go compiling, dependency management, program structure, concurrency, and more. Interested in learning more? RSVP on the GoSF meetup page.

In addition to the networking and learning these meetups offer, CloudFlare provides pizza and beverages for all attendees. We hope to see some of you at our next event!

We are looking forward to co-hosting a meetup next week on Wednesday, November 14, with Braintree, the fastest growing payments platform for online and mobile commerce.

This meetup will:

• Answer all of your questions about what to look for as you decide which payments provider is best for you

• Debunk payment myths

• Give insight into what the future of payments may hold

The speakers will give an overview of various payment solutions for different business types and stage of growth. From startups to SMBs - this meetup will answer your questions and give guidelines for best practices in choosing an online payment service.

Braintree speakers will be Charity Kittler, who directs training at Braintree, and Jenna Wyer, VP of Sales for Braintree.

There will be pizza, beer and good times, hope to see you there!

Doors open at 6:30PM, presentation starts at 7PM.

RSVP for the Braintree and CloudFlare meetup

You don't need to be a CloudFlare customer to take part, but sign up here.