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January 27, 2026
Building a serverless, post-quantum Matrix homeserver
As a proof of concept, we built a Matrix homeserver to Cloudflare Workers — delivering encrypted messaging at the edge with automatic post-quantum cryptography....
January 19, 2026
How we mitigated a vulnerability in Cloudflare’s ACME validation logic
A vulnerability was recently identified in Cloudflare’s automation of certificate validation. Here we explain the vulnerability and outline the steps we’ve taken to mitigate it. ...
January 16, 2026
Astro is joining Cloudflare
The Astro Technology Company team — the creators of the Astro web framework — is joining Cloudflare. We’re doubling down on making Astro the best framework for content-driven websites, today and in the years to come....
December 15, 2025
The 2025 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review: The rise of AI, post-quantum, and record-breaking DDoS attacks
We present our 6th annual review of Internet trends and patterns observed across the globe, revealing the disruptions, advances and metrics that defined 2025. ...
November 05, 2025
How Workers VPC Services connects to your regional private networks from anywhere in the world
Workers VPC Services enter open beta today. We look under the hood to see how Workers VPC connects your globally-deployed Workers to your regional private networks by using Cloudflare's global network, while abstracting cross-cloud networking complexity....
October 29, 2025
One IP address, many users: detecting CGNAT to reduce collateral effects
IPv4 scarcity drives widespread use of Carrier-Grade Network Address Translation, a practice in ISPs and mobile networks that places many users behind each IP address, along with their collected activity and volumes of traffic. We introduce the method we’ve developed to detect la...
October 29, 2025
Defending QUIC from acknowledgement-based DDoS attacks
We identified and patched two DDoS vulnerabilities in our QUIC implementation related to packet acknowledgements. Cloudflare customers were not affected. We examine the "Optimistic ACK" attack vector and our solution, which dynamically skips packet numbers to validate client beha...
October 28, 2025
Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates
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....
October 16, 2025
Improving the trustworthiness of Javascript on the Web
There's no way to audit a site’s client-side code as it changes, making it hard to trust sites that use cryptography. We preview a specification we co-authored that adds auditability to the web....
September 29, 2025
15 years of helping build a better Internet: a look back at Birthday Week 2025
Rust-powered core systems, post-quantum upgrades, developer access for students, PlanetScale integration, open-source partnerships, and our biggest internship program ever — 1,111 interns in 2026....
September 25, 2025
Safe in the sandbox: security hardening for Cloudflare Workers
We are further hardening Cloudflare Workers with the latest software and hardware features. We use defense-in-depth, including V8 sandboxes and the CPU's memory protection keys to keep your data safe....
September 24, 2025
Automatically Secure: how we upgraded 6,000,000 domains by default to get ready for the Quantum Future
After a year since we started enabling Automatic SSL/TLS, we want to talk about these results, why they matter, and how we’re preparing for the next leap in Internet security....
September 19, 2025
You don’t need quantum hardware for post-quantum security
Post-quantum cryptography protects against quantum threats using today’s hardware. Quantum tech like QKD may sound appealing, but it isn’t necessary or sufficient to secure organizations....
September 04, 2025
Addressing the unauthorized issuance of multiple TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1
Unauthorized TLS certificates were issued for 1.1.1.1 by a Certification Authority without permission from Cloudflare. These rogue certificates have now been revoked....