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November 06, 2017 5:54 AM
Randomness 101: LavaRand in Production
As some of you may know, there's a wall of lava lamps in the lobby of our San Francisco office that we use for cryptography. In this post, we’re going to explore how that works. ...
October 20, 2017 4:23 PM
Performing & Preventing SSL Stripping: A Plain-English Primer
Over the past few days we learned about a new attack that posed a serious weakness in the encryption protocol used to secure all modern Wi-Fi networks....
October 06, 2017 2:00 PM
A Fast, Secure Migration to Google Cloud Platform using Cloudflare
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Looking to host your website, application, or API in the cloud, or migrate to a new cloud provider while keeping your data secure? In this webinar, Trey Guinn, Head of Solutions Engineering at Cloudflare, will discuss how companies should a...
October 01, 2017 10:00 AM
A New Cybersecurity Strategy for Europe
October is European Cybersecurity Month, an annual advocacy campaign to raise awareness of cyber risks among citizens and businesses, and to share best practices in cybersecurity....
September 26, 2017 1:00 PM
Geo Key Manager: How It Works
Today we announced Geo Key Manager, a feature that gives customers control over where their private keys are stored with Cloudflare. This builds on a previous Cloudflare innovation called Keyless SSL and a novel cryptographic access control mechanism....
September 26, 2017 1:00 PM
Introducing the Cloudflare Geo Key Manager
Cloudflare’s customers recognize that they need to protect the confidentiality and integrity of communications with their web visitors....
September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
No Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible
When building a DDoS mitigation service it’s incredibly tempting to think that the solution is scrubbing centers or scrubbing servers. I, too, thought that was a good idea in the beginning, ...
September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
Meet Gatebot - a bot that allows us to sleep
In the past, we’ve spoken about how Cloudflare is architected to sustain the largest DDoS attacks. During traffic surges we spread the traffic across a very large number of edge servers. ...
September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
Unmetered Mitigation: DDoS Protection Without Limits
This is the week of Cloudflare's seventh birthday. It's become a tradition for us to announce a series of products each day of this week and bring major new benefits to our customers. We're beginning with one I'm especially proud of: Unmetered Mitigation....
September 14, 2017 6:25 PM
Disruptive Cryptography: Post-Quantum & Machine Learning With Encrypted Data
Shay Gueron, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Haifa, Israel, and Raluca Ada Popa, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley
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September 14, 2017 5:08 PM
The View from Washington: The State of Cybersecurity
Avril Haines, Former Deputy National Security Advisor, Obama Administration...
September 12, 2017 4:29 PM
Understanding the prevalence of web traffic interception
This post summarizes how prevalent encrypted web traffic interception is and how it negatively affects online security according to a study published at NDSS 2017 authored by several researchers including the author of this post and Nick Sullivan of Cloudflare. ...
September 01, 2017 8:48 PM
SIDH in Go for quantum-resistant TLS 1.3
Most of today's cryptography is designed to be secure against an adversary with enormous amounts of computational power. This means estimating how much work certain computations require, and choosing cryptographic parameters based on our best estimates....
August 28, 2017 2:00 PM
The WireX Botnet: How Industry Collaboration Disrupted a DDoS Attack
On August 17th, 2017, multiple Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and content providers were subject to significant attacks from a botnet dubbed WireX. ...