February 23, 2015 6:51PM
End of the road for RC4
RC4
Encryption
TLS
SSL
Security
Crypto Week
Today, we completely disabled the RC4 encryption algorithm for all SSL/TLS connections to CloudFlare sites. It's no longer possible to connect to any site that uses CloudFlare using RC4....
February 23, 2015 12:35PM
SSL Week Means Less Weak SSL
Speed & Reliability
Universal SSL
SSL
Security
Crypto Week
I'm excited to announce that today kicks off SSL Week at CloudFlare. Over the course of this week, we'll make a series of announcements on what we're doing to improve encryption on the Internet....
January 21, 2015 9:47PM
Flexible SSL & Wordpress: Fixing “Mixed Content” Errors
WordPress
HTTPS
Mixed Content Errors
SSL
Security
As many are aware, CloudFlare launched Universal SSL several months ago. We saw lots of customers sign up and start using these new, free SSL certificates. For many customers that didn’t already have an SSL certificate, they were able to use “Flexible SSL”....
December 22, 2014 9:08PM
Kyoto Tycoon Secure Replication
TLS
HTTPS
Security
Kyoto Tycoon is a distributed key-value store written by FAL Labs, and it is used extensively at CloudFlare. Like many popular key-value stores, Kyoto Tycoon uses timestamp-based replication to ensure eventual consistency and guarantee ordering....
November 10, 2014 11:28PM
CloudFlare and SHA-1 Certificates
Chrome
Firefox
HTTPS
Security
At CloudFlare, we’re dedicated to ensuring sites are not only secure, but also available to the widest audience. In the coming months, both Google’s Chrome browser and Mozilla’s Firefox browser are changing their policy with respect to certain web site certificates....
October 14, 2014 10:37PM
SSLv3 Support Disabled By Default Due to POODLE Vulnerability
For the last week we've been tracking rumors about a new vulnerability in SSL. This specific vulnerability, which was just announced, targets SSLv3....