Cryptography

September 19, 2018 12:01 PM

This article will talk about our approach to network security using technologies like RPKI to sign Internet routes and protect our users and customers from route hijacks and misconfigurations....

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• Jérôme Fleury
• , Louis Poinsignon

September 19, 2018 12:00 PM

We have talked about the BGP Internet routing protocol before. We have talked about how we build a more resilient network and how we can see outages at a country-level via BGP. We have even talked about the network community that is vital to the operation of the global Internet....

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• Martin J Levy

September 18, 2018 1:00 PM

Cloudflare first started talking about DNSSEC in 2014 and at the time, Nick Sullivan wrote: “DNSSEC is a valuable tool for improving the trust and integrity of DNS, the backbone of the modern Internet.”...

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• Sergi Isasi
• , Vicky Shrestha

September 17, 2018 1:02 PM

Use Cloudflare’s IPFS gateway to set up a website which is end-to-end secure, while maintaining the performance and reliability benefits of being served from Cloudflare’s edge network....

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• Brendan McMillion

September 17, 2018 1:01 PM

Today we’re excited to introduce Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway, an easy way to access content from the the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) that doesn’t require installing and running any special software on your computer....

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• Andy Parker

September 17, 2018 1:00 PM

The Internet isn’t perfect. It was put together piecemeal through publicly funded research, private investment, and organic growth that has left us with an imperfect tapestry....

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• Nick Sullivan

August 10, 2018 11:00 PM

TLS 1.3 (RFC 8446) was published today. This article provides a deep dive into the changes introduced in TLS 1.3 and its impact on the future of internet security....

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• Nick Sullivan

June 29, 2018 1:00 PM

If you followed part one, I’ve set up an environment to write TypeScript with tests and deploy to the Cloudflare Edge using npm run upload. In this post, I’ll expand on one Worker Recipe even further....

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• Steven Pack

June 05, 2018 2:46 PM

As was mentioned in the original 1.1.1.1 blog post, our policy is to never write client IP addresses to disk and wipe all logs within 24 hours. Still some folks might not want to reveal their IP address to the resolver at all. This is why we are launching a Tor hidden service for...

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• Mahrud Sayrafi

April 24, 2018 10:31 PM

Over the few last hours, a dozen news stories have broken about how an attacker attempted (and perhaps managed) to steal cryptocurrencies using a BGP leak....

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• Louis Poinsignon

March 27, 2018 12:00 PM

Compression is often considered an essential tool when reducing the bandwidth usage of internet services. The impact that the use of such compression schemes can have on security, however, has often been overlooked. ...

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• Guest Author

March 23, 2018 2:45 PM

Certificate Transparency (CT) is an ambitious project to help improve security online by bringing accountability to the system that protects HTTPS. ...

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• Nick Sullivan

December 28, 2017 6:22 PM

I wouldn’t be surprised if the title of this post attracts some Bitcoin aficionados, but if you are such, I want to disappoint you. For me crypto means cryptography, not cybermoney, and the price we pay for it is measured in CPU cycles, not USD....

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• Vlad Krasnov

December 26, 2017 8:30 PM

Upgrading a security protocol in an ecosystem as complex as the Internet is difficult. You need to update clients and servers and make sure everything in between continues to work correctly. The Internet is in the middle of such an upgrade right now. ...

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• Nick Sullivan