NIST’s first post-quantum standards
August 20, 2024
NIST has published the first cryptographic standards for protecting against attacks from quantum computers. Learn what this means for you and your organization....
Introducing Automatic SSL/TLS: securing and simplifying origin connectivity
August 08, 2024
This new Automatic SSL/TLS setting will maximize and simplify the encryption modes Cloudflare uses to communicate with origin servers by using the SSL/TLS Recommender....
Harnessing chaos in Cloudflare offices
March 08, 2024
This blog post will cover the new sources of “chaos” that have been added to LavaRand and how you can make use of that harnessed chaos in your next application...
The state of the post-quantum Internet
March 05, 2024
Nearly 2% of all TLS 1.3 connections established with Cloudflare are secured with post-quantum cryptography. What once was the topic of futuristic tech demos will soon be the new security baseline....
Privacy Pass: upgrading to the latest protocol version
January 04, 2024
In this post, we explore the latest changes to Privacy Pass protocol. We are also excited to introduce a public implementation of the latest IETF draft of the Privacy Pass protocol — including a set of open-source templates that can be used to implement Privacy Pass Origins, Issuers, and Attesters...
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