Helping build the next generation of privacy-preserving protocols
2020-12-08
Today, we’re making several announcements around improving Internet protocols with respect to something important to our customers and Internet users worldwide: privacy....
OPAQUE: The Best Passwords Never Leave your Device
2020-12-08
Imagine passwords for online services that never leave your device, encrypted or otherwise. OPAQUE is a new cryptographic protocol that makes this idea possible, giving you and only you full control of your password....
Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH in 1.1.1.1
2020-12-08
Oblivious DoH (ODoH) makes secure DNS over HTTPS (DoH) queries into private queries which prevent the leakage of client IP addresses to resolvers. The new proposed ODoH standard addresses this problem and today we are enabling users to use this protocol with 1.1.1.1...
Good-bye ESNI, hello ECH!
2020-12-08
A deep dive into the Encrypted Client Hello, a standard that encrypts privacy-sensitive parameters sent by the client, as part of the TLS handshake....
Privacy needs to be built into the Internet
2020-12-07
The Internet was not built for privacy. Welcome to Phase 3 of the Internet: always on, always secure, always private....
Introducing the Cloudflare Data Localization Suite
2020-12-07
The Data Localization Suite helps businesses get the performance and security benefits of Cloudflare’s global network while making it easy to set rules and controls at the edge about where their data is stored and protected....
Welcome to Privacy & Compliance Week: Reflecting Values at Cloudflare’s Core
2020-12-06
Over the course of the week, we'll be announcing ways that our customers can use our service in order to ensure they are in compliance with an increasingly complicated set of rules and laws around the world....
An introduction to three-phase power and PDUs
2020-12-04
This blog is a quick Electrical Engineering 101 session going over specifically how 3-phase PDUs work, along with some good practices on how we use them...
Diversity and The Digital Divide: Thoughts From Tech Leaders
2020-12-04
Leaders from across the tech industry and beyond recently joined us for Cloudflare’s Birthday Week, helping us celebrate Cloudflare’s 10th birthday. Many of them touched on the importance of diversity and making the Internet accessible to everyone....
Improving the Resiliency of Our Infrastructure DNS Zone
2020-11-30
We've improved the resiliency and management of our infrastructure DNS zone. In this post, we guide you through some of the "whats", "whys" and "hows" we encountered along the way. ...
A Thanksgiving 2020 Reading List
2020-11-28
If you want to relax in an active and learning way this Thanksgiving weekend, here are some of the topics we’ve covered on the Cloudflare blog this past week that you may find interesting....
ASICs at the Edge
2020-11-27
At Cloudflare, we pride ourselves in our global network that spans more than 200 cities in over 100 countries. To accelerate all that traffic through our network, there are multiple technologies at play. So let’s have a look at one of the cornerstones that makes all of this work....
A Byzantine failure in the real world
2020-11-27
At Cloudflare, we are always on the lookout for Single Points of Failure. In this post, we explore the role a failure mode known as a Byzantine fault played in a a real-world incident....
Building Black Friday e-commerce experiences with JAMstack and Cloudflare Workers
2020-11-26
In this blog post, we'll explore how Cloudflare Workers continues to excel as a JAMstack deployment platform, and how it can be used to power e-commerce experiences, integrating with familiar tools like Stripe, as well as new technologies like Nuxt.js, and Sanity.io....
Moving Quicksilver into production
2020-11-25
We previously explained how and why we built Quicksilver. This second blog post is about the long journey to production which culminates with Kyoto Tycoon removal from Cloudflare infrastructure and points to the first signs of obsolescence....
Getting to the Core: Benchmarking Cloudflare’s Latest Server Hardware
2020-11-20
A refresh of the hardware that Cloudflare uses to run analytics provided big efficiency improvements....
Improving Performance and Search Rankings with Cloudflare for Fun and Profit
2020-11-19
Making things fast is one of the things we do at Cloudflare. More responsive websites, apps, APIs, and networks directly translate into improved conversion and user experience. ...
Many services, one cloudflared
2020-11-19
Previously, if you wanted to proxy 100 services through Argo Tunnel, you needed 100 instances of cloudflared running on your server. Today, we’re thrilled to announce our most-requested feature: you can now expose unlimited services using one cloudflared....
Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q3 2020
2020-11-18
In Q3 ‘20, Cloudflare observed a surge in DDoS attacks, with double the number of DDoS attacks and more attack vectors deployed than ever — with a notable surge in protocol-specific DDoS attacks such as mDNS, Memcached, and Jenkins amplification floods....
Anchoring Trust: A Hardware Secure Boot Story
2020-11-17
As a security company, we pride ourselves on finding innovative ways to protect our platform to, in turn, protect the data of our customers. Part of this approach is implementing progressive methods in protecting our hardware at scale....
