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July 08, 2022 5:54 PM
NIST’s pleasant post-quantum surprise
On Tuesday, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced which post-quantum cryptography they will standardize. We were already drafting this post with an educated guess on the choice NIST would make....
June 28, 2022 12:57 PM
Hertzbleed explained
Hertzbleed is a brand-new family of side-channel attacks that monitors changes on CPU frequency...
May 16, 2022 12:58 PM
Proof of Stake and our next experiments in web3
Cloudflare is going to participate in the research and development of the core infrastructure that helps keep Ethereum secure, fast, as well as energy efficient for everyone...
May 16, 2022 12:57 PM
Serving Cloudflare Pages sites to the IPFS network
Today, we're announcing we're bridging the two. We will make it possible for our customers to serve their sites on the IPFS network...
May 16, 2022 12:57 PM
Gaining visibility in IPFS systems
We've developed the IPFS Gateway monitor, an observability tool that runs various IPFS scenarios on a given gateway endpoint. In this post, you'll learn how we use this tool and go over discoveries we made along the way...
April 15, 2022 1:00 PM
Breaking down broadband nutrition labels
We commend Congress for including broadband nutrition labels in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the FCC for moving quickly to implement the labels...
March 31, 2022 12:59 PM
Future-proofing SaltStack
This blogpost chronicles the recent CVEs investigation, our findings, and how we are helping secure Salt now and in the Quantum future...
March 20, 2022 4:58 PM
Unlocking QUIC’s proxying potential with MASQUE
We continue our technical deep dive into traditional TCP proxying over HTTP...
March 19, 2022 5:01 PM
A Primer on Proxies
A technical dive into traditional TCP proxying over HTTP...
March 08, 2022 8:55 PM
Announcing experimental DDR in 1.1.1.1
The majority of DNS queries on the Internet today are unencrypted. This post describes a new protocol, called Discovery of Designated Resolvers (DDR), that allows clients to upgrade from unencrypted DNS to encrypted DNS when only the IP address of a resolver is known. ...
February 25, 2022 4:03 PM
The post-quantum future: challenges and opportunities
The story and path of post-quantum cryptography is clear. But, what are the future challenges? In this blog post, we explore them...
February 25, 2022 4:03 PM
Post-quantumify internal services: Logfwrdr, Tunnel, and gokeyless
A big challenge is coming: to change all internal connections at Cloudflare to use post-quantum cryptography. Read how we are tackling this challenge!...
February 24, 2022 11:12 PM
HPKE: Standardizing public-key encryption (finally!)
HPKE (RFC 9180) was made to be simple, reusable, and future-proof by building upon knowledge from prior PKE schemes and software implementations. This article provides an overview of this new standard, going back to discuss its motivation, design goals, and development process...
February 24, 2022 5:30 PM
Building Confidence in Cryptographic Protocols
This blogpost refers to the efforts to use formal/verification/implementation for post-quantum algorithms to achieve better assurance for them. It also touches on our Cloudflare efforts on this...