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February 21, 2022 1:59 PM
The quantum solace and spectre
What is quantum computing and what advances have been made so far on this front? In this blog post, we will answer this question and see how to protect against quantum adversaries...
November 08, 2021 3:39 PM
Sizing Up Post-Quantum Signatures
How much room does TLS have for the big post-quantum signatures? We had a look: it’s tight....
October 13, 2021 12:59 PM
Pairings in CIRCL
Our Go cryptographic library CIRCL announces support for pairing-based cryptography....
October 13, 2021 12:59 PM
Exported Authenticators: The long road to RFC
Learn more about Exported Authenticators, a new extension to TLS, currently going through the IETF standardisation process....
February 19, 2021 12:00 PM
Using HPKE to Encrypt Request Payloads
Allowing users to securely log parts of the request that match firewall rules while making it impossible for anyone else to decrypt....
January 15, 2021 12:00 PM
KEMTLS: Post-quantum TLS without signatures
The TLS 1.3 protocol has been around for quite some time, but it will be broken once quantum computers arrive. What can we do? In this blog post, we will examine a technique for achieving full post-quantum security for TLS 1.3 in the face of quantum computers: KEMTLS....
December 11, 2020 12:00 PM
Securing the post-quantum world
As quantum computing matures, R&D efforts in cryptography are keeping pace. We’re working with academia and industry peers to create new cryptography standards resilient to quantum computer attacks....
December 08, 2020 12:00 PM
Helping build the next generation of privacy-preserving protocols
Today, we’re making several announcements around improving Internet protocols with respect to something important to our customers and Internet users worldwide: privacy....
November 06, 2020 12:36 PM
The Internet is Getting Safer: Fall 2020 RPKI Update
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....
October 01, 2020 2:53 PM
NTS is now an RFC
After much hard work, NTS finally becomes an official RFC.This means that Network Time Security (NTS) is officially part of the collection of protocols that makes the Internet work. ...
April 09, 2020 11:00 AM
Internship Experience: Cryptography Engineer
Back in the summer of 2017 I was an intern at Cloudflare. During the scholastic year I was a grad student working on automorphic forms and computational Langlands at Berkeley....
March 25, 2020 12:00 PM
Speeding up Linux disk encryption
Encrypting data at rest is vital for Cloudflare with more than 200 data centres across the world. In this post, we will investigate the performance of disk encryption on Linux and explain how we made it at least two times faster for ourselves and our customers!...
March 04, 2020 1:00 PM
Pwned Passwords Padding (ft. Lava Lamps and Workers)
Starting today, we are offering a new security advancement in the Pwned Passwords API - API clients can receive responses padded with random data....
November 01, 2019 1:01 PM
Going Keyless Everywhere
Time flies. The Heartbleed vulnerability was discovered just over five and a half years ago. Heartbleed became a household name not only because it was one of the first bugs with its own web page and logo, but because of what it revealed about the fragility of the Internet as a w...