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Encrypt that SNI: Firefox edition

Published on October 18th, 2018 5:00PM by Alessandro Ghedini.

A couple of weeks ago we announced support for the encrypted Server Name Indication (SNI) TLS extension (ESNI for short). As promised, our friends at Mozilla landed support for ESNI in Firefox Nightly, so you can now browse Cloudflare websites without leaking the plaintext SNI TLS extension to on-path observers

Encrypting SNI: Fixing One of the Core Internet Bugs

Published on September 24th, 2018 12:00PM by Matthew Prince.

Cloudflare launched on September 27, 2010. Since then, we've considered September 27th our birthday. This Thursday we'll be turning 8 years old. Ever since our first birthday, we've used the occasion to launch new products or services.

Introducing the Cloudflare Onion Service

Published on September 20th, 2018 12:00PM by Mahrud Sayrafi.

Two years ago this week Cloudflare introduced Opportunistic Encryption, a feature that provided additional security and performance benefits to websites that had not yet moved to HTTPS.

Enable Private DNS with 1.1.1.1 on Android 9 Pie

Published on August 16th, 2018 3:01PM by Stephen Pinkerton.

Android 9 Pie includes a slew of new features around digital well-being and privacy. Here's how to use the new Private DNS feature with 1.1.1.1.

DNS-Over-TLS Built-In & Enforced - 1.1.1.1 and the GL.iNet GL-AR750S

Published on July 14th, 2018 5:13PM by Junade Ali.

Back in April, I wrote about how it was possible to modify a router to encrypt DNS queries over TLS using Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS Resolver and a GL.iNet router; the folks at GL.iNet read that blog post and decided to bake DNS-Over-TLS support into their new router using the 1.1.1.1 resolver.