This is a guest post by Elie Bursztein who writes about security and anti-abuse research. It was first published on his blog and has been lightly edited. This post summarizes how prevalent encrypted web traffic interception is and how it negatively affects online security according to a study published at
SIDH in Go for quantum-resistant TLS 1.3
This blog post presents a new cryptography primitive that we open sourced: p751sidh. The Quantum Threat Most of today's cryptography is designed to be secure against an adversary with enormous amounts of computational power. This means estimating how much work certain computations (such as factoring a number, or finding a
High-reliability OCSP stapling and why it matters
At Cloudflare our focus is making the internet faster and more secure. Today we are announcing a new enhancement to our HTTPS service: High-Reliability OCSP stapling. This feature is a step towards enabling an important security feature on the web: certificate revocation checking. Reliable OCSP stapling also improves connection times
How to make your site HTTPS-only
The Internet is getting more secure every day as people enable HTTPS, the secure version of HTTP, on their sites and services. Last year, Mozilla reported that the percentage of requests made by Firefox using encrypted HTTPS passed 50% for the first time. HTTPS has numerous benefits that are not
Introducing Zero Round Trip Time Resumption (0-RTT)
Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a faster and more secure Internet. Over the last several years, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has been working on a new version of TLS, the protocol that powers the secure web. Last September, Cloudflare was the first service provider to enable
TLS 1.3 explained by the Cloudflare Crypto Team at 33c3
Nick Sullivan and I gave a talk about TLS 1.3 at 33c3, the latest Chaos Communication Congress. The congress, attended by more that 13,000 hackers in Hamburg, has been one of the hallmark events of the security community for more than 30 years. You can watch the recording
So you want to expose Go on the Internet
This piece was originally written for the Gopher Academy advent series. We are grateful to them for allowing us to republish it here. Back when crypto/tls was slow and net/http young, the general wisdom was to always put Go servers behind a reverse proxy like NGINX. That's not
Cloudflare Crypto Meetup #4: November 22
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. We’ll start the evening at 6:00p.m. with time for networking, followed up with short talks