Delegated Credentials for TLS
November 01, 2019
Announcing support for a new cryptographic protocol making it possible to deploy encrypted services while still maintaining performance and control of private keys: Delegated Credentials for TLS. ...
Announcing cfnts: Cloudflare's implementation of NTS in Rust
October 31, 2019
Several months ago we announced that we were providing a new public time service. Part of what we were providing was the first major deployment of the new Network Time Security protocol, with a newly written implementation of NTS in Rust. ...
The TLS Post-Quantum Experiment
October 30, 2019
In a June 2019 experiment with Google, we implemented two post-quantum key exchanges, integrated them into our TLS stack and deployed the implementation on edge servers and in Chrome Canary clients....
DNS Encryption Explained
October 29, 2019
The Domain Name System (DNS) is the address book of the Internet. When you visit cloudflare.com or any other site, your browser will ask a DNS resolver for the IP address where the website can be found. Unfortunately, these DNS queries and answers are typically unprotected....
Supporting the latest version of the Privacy Pass Protocol
October 28, 2019
At Cloudflare, we are committed to supporting and developing new privacy-preserving technologies that benefit all Internet users. In November 2017, we announced server-side support for the Privacy Pass protocol, a piece of work developed in collaboration with the academic community....
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June 21, 2019
Introducing time.cloudflare.com
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 p...
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June 20, 2019
The Quantum Menace
The impact of quantum computing on cryptography conducts research and development towards a Post-Quantum era....
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June 20, 2019
Introducing CIRCL: An Advanced Cryptographic Library
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. ...
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June 19, 2019
Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway
Today, we are excited to announce Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway, where you can interact with the Ethereum network without installing any software on your computer....
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March 18, 2019
Monsters in the Middleboxes: Introducing Two New Tools for Detecting HTTPS Interception
The practice of HTTPS interception continues to be commonplace on the Internet. This blog post discusses types of monster-in-the-middle devices and software, and how to detect them....
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September 21, 2018
Roughtime: Securing Time with Digital Signatures
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....
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September 17, 2018
Cloudflare goes InterPlanetary - Introducing Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway
Today we’re excited to introduce Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway, an easy way to access content from the the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) that doesn’t require installing and running any special software on your computer....
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August 10, 2018
A Detailed Look at RFC 8446 (a.k.a. TLS 1.3)
TLS 1.3 (RFC 8446) was published today. This article provides a deep dive into the changes introduced in TLS 1.3 and its impact on the future of internet security....
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March 23, 2018
Introducing Certificate Transparency and Nimbus
Certificate Transparency (CT) is an ambitious project to help improve security online by bringing accountability to the system that protects HTTPS. ...
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December 26, 2017
Why TLS 1.3 isn't in browsers yet
Upgrading a security protocol in an ecosystem as complex as the Internet is difficult. You need to update clients and servers and make sure everything in between continues to work correctly. The Internet is in the middle of such an upgrade right now. ...
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December 26, 2017
Concise (Post-Christmas) Cryptography Challenges
It's the day after Christmas; or, depending on your geography, Boxing Day. With the festivities over, you may still find yourself stuck at home and somewhat bored. ...
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December 14, 2017
Inside the infamous Mirai IoT Botnet: A Retrospective Analysis
This post offers a retrospective on Mirai, the infamous IoT botnet that disrupted major websites with massive DDoS attacks, leveraging hundreds of thousands of compromised Internet-of-Things devices....
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November 09, 2017
Privacy Pass - “The Math”
During a recent internship at Cloudflare, I had the chance to help integrate support for improving the accessibility of websites that are protected by the Cloudflare edge network. ...
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November 09, 2017
Cloudflare supports Privacy Pass
Cloudflare supports Privacy Pass, a recently-announced privacy-preserving protocol developed in collaboration with researchers from Royal Holloway and the University of Waterloo. ...
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