The Quantum Menace
June 20, 2019
The impact of quantum computing on cryptography conducts research and development towards a Post-Quantum era....
Towards Post-Quantum Cryptography in TLS
June 20, 2019
In anticipation of wide-spread quantum computing, the transition from classical public-key cryptography primitives to post-quantum (PQ) alternatives has started....
Introducing CIRCL: An Advanced Cryptographic Library
June 20, 2019
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. ...
Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway
June 19, 2019
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....
Securing Certificate Issuance using Multipath Domain Control Validation
June 18, 2019
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. ...
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June 17, 2019
Inside the Entropy
Generating random outcomes is an essential part of everyday life; from lottery drawings and constructing competitions, to performing deep cryptographic computations. ...
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June 16, 2019
Welcome to Crypto Week 2019
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. ...
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June 16, 2019
Security Compliance at Cloudflare
Cloudflare believes trust is fundamental to helping build a better Internet. One way Cloudflare is helping our customers earn their users’ trust is through industry standard security compliance certifications and regulations. ...
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June 15, 2019
A free Argo Tunnel for your next project
Argo Tunnel lets you expose a server to the Internet without opening any ports. The service runs a lightweight process on your server that creates outbound tunnels to the Cloudflare network. ...
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June 13, 2019
Protecting Project Galileo websites from HTTP attacks
Yesterday, we celebrated the fifth anniversary of Project Galileo. More than 550 websites are part of this program, and they have something in common: each and every one of them has been subject to attacks in the last month....
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June 05, 2019
Technology's Promise - Highlights from DEF CON China 1.0
Themed "Technology's Promise", DEF CON China 1.0 kicked off on 5/30 in Beijing. The Cloudflare team from Beijing, Singapore and San Francisco attended to connect with local security communities....
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May 28, 2019
Stopping SharePoint’s CVE-2019-0604
On Saturday, 11th May 2019, we got the news of a critical web vulnerability being actively exploited in the wild by advanced persistent threats (APTs), affecting Microsoft’s SharePoint server (versions 2010 through 2019)....
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March 20, 2019
Preventing Request Loops Using CDN-Loop
HTTP requests originate with a client and end at a web server that processes the request and returns a response. Such requests pass through multiple proxies before arriving at the requested resource. ...
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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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March 15, 2019
RFC8482 - Saying goodbye to ANY
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like you to welcome the new shiny RFC8482, which effectively deprecates DNS ANY query type. DNS ANY was a "meta-query" - think about it as a similar thing to the common A, AAAA, MX or SRV query types, but unlike these it wasn't a real query type - it...
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March 05, 2019
Stopping Drupal’s SA-CORE-2019-003 Vulnerability
Drupal discovered a severe vulnerability and said they would release a patch. When the patch was released we analysed and created rules to mitigate these. By analysing the patch we created WAF rules to protect Cloudflare customers running Drupal....
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March 04, 2019
Building fast interpreters in Rust
In the previous post we described the Firewall Rules architecture and how the different components are integrated together. We created a configurable Rust library for writing and executing Wireshark®-like filters in different parts of our stack written in Go, Lua, C, C++ and Java...
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March 04, 2019
How we made Firewall Rules
Recently we launched Firewall Rules, a new feature that allows you to construct expressions that perform complex matching against HTTP requests and then choose how that traffic is handled....
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February 24, 2019
Cloudflare’s RPKI Toolkit
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....
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