January 29, 2014 12:00PM
Killing RC4 (softly)
RC4
Crypto
OpenSSL
Encryption
Vulnerabilities
Back in 2011, the BEAST attack on the cipher block chaining (CBC) encryption mode used in TLS v1.0 was demonstrated. At the time the advice of experts (including our own) was to prioritize the use of RC4-based cipher suites....
January 06, 2014 12:00PM
How the NSA (may have) put a backdoor in RSA’s cryptography: A technical primer
Crypto
Privacy
There has been a lot of news lately about nefarious-sounding backdoors being inserted into cryptographic standards and toolkits. One algorithm, a pseudo-random bit generator, Dual_EC_DRBG, was ratified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2007....
November 21, 2013 9:00AM
Red October: CloudFlare’s Open Source Implementation of the Two-Man Rule
Crypto
Open Source
Encryption
RSA
GitHub
TLS
Security
At CloudFlare, we are always looking for better ways to secure the data we’re entrusted with. This means hardening our system against outside threats such as hackers, but it also means protecting against insider threats....
October 24, 2013 4:00AM
A (Relatively Easy To Understand) Primer on Elliptic Curve Cryptography
HTTPS
Elliptic Curves
Crypto
Security
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is one of the most powerful but least understood types of cryptography in wide use today. At CloudFlare, we make extensive use of ECC to secure everything from our customers' HTTPS connections to how we pass data between our data centers....