Cloudflare Crypto Meetup #4: November 22
2016-11-02
Come join us on Cloudflare HQ in San Francisco on Tuesday, November 22 for another cryptography meetup. We had such a great time at the last one, we decided to host another....
How the Dyn outage affected Cloudflare
2016-10-27
Last Friday the popular DNS service Dyn suffered three waves of DDoS attacks that affected users first on the East Coast of the US, and later users worldwide. ...
How Cloudflare's Architecture Allows Us to Scale to Stop the Largest Attacks
2016-10-26
The last few weeks have seen several high-profile outages in legacy DNS and DDoS-mitigation services due to large scale attacks. Cloudflare's customers have, understandably, asked how we are positioned to handle similar attacks....
Dyn issues affecting joint customers
2016-10-21
Today there is an ongoing, large scale Denial-of-Service attack directed against Dyn DNS. While Cloudflare services are operating normally, if you are using both Cloudflare and Dyn services, your website may be affected....
TLS nonce-nse
2016-10-12
One of the base principles of cryptography is that you can't just encrypt multiple messages with the same key. At the very least, what will happen is that two messages that have identical plaintext will also have identical ciphertext, which is a dangerous leak. ...
Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming from IoT cameras
2016-10-11
Over the last few weeks we've seen DDoS attacks hitting our systems that show that attackers have switched to new, large methods of bringing down web applications....
Announcing New Features To Help Hosting Providers Run Their Own Reliable DNS Infrastructure
2016-10-06
Over the last six years, we’ve built the tooling, infrastructure and expertise to run a DNS network that handles our scale - we’ve answered a few million DNS queries in the few seconds since you started reading this....
Cloudflare Certifies Under the New EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
2016-10-01
Cloudflare has certified with the U.S. Department of Commerce for the new EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework. ...
Rate Limiting: Live Demo
2016-09-30
Cloudflare helps customers control their own traffic at the edge. One of two products that we introduced to empower customers to do so is Cloudflare Rate Limiting....
Introducing Dedicated SSL Certificates
2016-09-30
When we launched Universal SSL in September 2014 we eliminated the costly and confusing process of securing a website or app with SSL, and replaced it with one free step: sign up for Cloudflare....
Cloudflare Traffic Manager: The Details
2016-09-29
Cloudflare's investment into building a large global network protects our customers from DDoS attacks, secures them with our Web Application Firewall and Universal SSL, as well as improving performance through our CDN and the many network-level optimizations we're constantly iterating on....
Control your traffic at the edge with Cloudflare
2016-09-29
Today, we're introducing two new Cloudflare Traffic products to give customers control over how Cloudflare’s edge network handles their traffic, allowing them to shape and direct it for their specific needs....
Six years old and time for an update: CloudFlare becomes Cloudflare
2016-09-27
Today, Cloudflare turns six years old, and if you’re reading this on our blog, you may have noticed that we look a bit different today than the cloudflare.com that you’ve visited in the past. More on that a bit later in this post....
Amsterdam to Zhuzhou: Cloudflare network expands to 100 cities
2016-09-26
We’re excited to kick off Cloudflare’s sixth birthday celebrations by announcing data center locations in 14 new cities across 5 continents. This expansion makes our global network one of the largest in the world, spanning 100 unique cities across 49 countries....
How we brought HTTPS Everywhere to the cloud (part 1)
2016-09-24
CloudFlare's mission is to make HTTPS accessible for all our customers. It provides security for their websites, improved ranking on search engines, better performance with HTTP/2, and access to browser features such as geolocation that are being deprecated for plaintext HTTP....
An overview of TLS 1.3 and Q&A
2016-09-23
The CloudFlare London office hosts weekly internal Tech Talks (with free lunch picked by the speaker). My recent one was an explanation of the latest version of TLS, 1.3, how it works and why it's faster and safer....
Fixing the mixed content problem with Automatic HTTPS Rewrites
2016-09-22
It used to be difficult, expensive, and slow to set up an HTTPS capable web site. Then along came CloudFlare’s Universal SSL that made switching from http:// to https:// as easy as clicking a button. ...
Opportunistic Encryption: Bringing HTTP/2 to the unencrypted web
2016-09-21
Encrypting the web is not an easy task. Various complexities prevent websites from migrating from HTTP to HTTPS, including mixed content, which can prevent sites from functioning with HTTPS. ...
Introducing TLS 1.3
2016-09-20
The encrypted Internet is about to become a whole lot snappier. When it comes to browsing, we’ve been driving around in a beat-up car from the 90s for a while. Little does anyone know, we’re all about to trade in our station wagons for a smoking new sports car. ...
Encryption Week
2016-09-20
Since CloudFlare’s inception, we have worked tirelessly to make encryption as simple and as accessible as possible. Over the last two years, we’ve made CloudFlare the easiest way to enable encryption for web properties and internet services. ...