The Internet is Getting Safer: Fall 2020 RPKI Update
2020-11-06
The cap of two hundred thousand routing cryptographic records was recently passed. We thought it was time for an update on a major year for RPKI....
Is BGP Safe Yet? No. But we are tracking it carefully
2020-04-17
BGP leaks and leaks and hijacks have been accepted as an unavoidable part of the Internet for far too long. Today, we are releasing isBGPSafeYet.com, a website to track deployments and filtering of invalid routes by the major networks....
On the shoulders of giants: recent changes in Internet traffic
2020-03-17
As the COVID-19 emergency continues and an increasing number of cities and countries are establishing quarantines or cordons sanitaire, the Internet has become, for many, the primary method to keep in touch with their friends and families. ...
Cloudflare’s RPKI Toolkit
2019-02-24
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....
Concise Christmas Cryptography Challenges 2019
2018-12-25
We've put together some Christmas Cryptography questions. Do you think you can solve them?...
RPKI and BGP: our path to securing Internet Routing
2018-09-19
This article will talk about our approach to network security using technologies like RPKI to sign Internet routes and protect our users and customers from route hijacks and misconfigurations....
African traffic growth and predictions for the future
2018-08-19
Looking back at our historical data, we realized how much the Internet and Cloudflare grew. With more than 150 data centers, 10 percent of web-based applications, customers everywhere around the world, from the tiny islands in the Pacific to the big metropolises....
BGP leaks and cryptocurrencies
2018-04-24
Over the few last hours, a dozen news stories have broken about how an attacker attempted (and perhaps managed) to steal cryptocurrencies using a BGP leak....
The Story of Two Outages
2017-09-07
Over the last two days, Cloudflare observed two events that had effects on global Internet traffic levels. Cloudflare handles approximately 10% of all Internet requests, so we have significant visibility into traffic from countries and networks across the world....