2018-08-10

TLS 1.3 (RFC 8446) was published today. This article provides a deep dive into the changes introduced in TLS 1.3 and its impact on the future of internet security....

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  Nick Sullivan

2018-08-09

In February, Troy Hunt unveiled Pwned Passwords v2. Containing over half a billion real world leaked passwords, this database provides a vital tool for correcting the course of how the ...

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  Junade Ali

2018-08-07

Cloudflare Stream is the best way for any founder or developer to deliver an extraordinary video experience to their viewers while cutting development time and costs, and as of today it is available to every Cloudflare customer....

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  Zaid Farooqui

2018-08-06

Cloudflare recently updated the authoritative DNS service to support nine new record types. Since these records are less commonly used than what we previously supported, we thought it would be a good idea to do a brief explanation of each record type and how it is used....

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  Sergi Isasi
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  Etienne Labaume

2018-08-02

Starting today we are announcing the availability of two key pilot programs: Cloudflare Apps with Workers and Cloudflare Workers Service Providers. Over the course of past few months we've seen an accelerating interest in Workers....

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  Jonathan Bruce

2018-07-31

10 million websites, apps and APIs use Cloudflare to give their users a speed boost. At peak we serve more than 10 million requests a second across our 151 data centers. Over the years we’ve made many modifications to our version of NGINX to handle our growth. This is blog post is about one of them....

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  Ka-Hing Cheung

2018-07-31

If you've ever played a video game in the past couple of years, chances are you know about Minecraft. You might be familiar with the game or even planted a tree or two, but what you might not know about is the vast number of Minecraft online communities. ...

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  Ashcon Partovi

2018-07-26

In Q2, Cloudflare released several products which enable a better Internet “end-to-end” — from the mobile client to host infrastructure. Now, anyone from an individual developer to large companies and governments, can control, secure, and accelerate their applications from “perimeter” to “host.”...

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  Timothy Fong

2018-07-26

QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is a new encrypted-by-default Internet transport protocol, that provides a number of improvements designed to accelerate HTTP traffic as well as make it more secure, with the intended goal of eventually replacing TCP and TLS on the web....

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  Alessandro Ghedini

2018-07-25

Our fast, privacy-centric 1.1.1.1 project can secure your users on the Internet, and you’ll always know that they’ll be the first to benefit from the work of Internet standards bodies like the IETF....

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  Stephen Pinkerton

2018-07-24

It's no secret that Cloudflare operates at a huge scale. Cloudflare provides security and performance to over 9 million websites all around the world, from small businesses and WordPress blogs to Fortune 500 companies. That means one in every 10 web requests goes through our network....

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  Junade Ali

2018-07-24

Using a VPN breaks your workflow with logins, needs separate credentials for admins to handle, slows you when not in the office, and brings security risks that extend past mere inconvenience to users....

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  Sam Rhea

2018-07-24

I still remember my first foray onto the internet as a university student back in the mid 90's. It was a simpler time back then, of course; we weren't doing our personal banking or our tax returns or handling our medical records so encrypting the transport layer wasn't exactly a high priority. ...

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  Troy Hunt (Guest Author)

2018-07-21

Earlier this month we released Dynamic Steering for Load Balancing which allows you to have your Cloudflare load balancer direct traffic to the fastest pool for a given Cloudflare region or colo (Enterprise only)....

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  Sergi Isasi
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  Sindu Vijayakumar
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  Tim Polich

2018-07-19

Last December, Cloudflare announced the Athenian Project to help protect U.S. state and local election websites from cyber attack. Since then, the need to protect our electoral systems has become increasingly urgent. ...

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  Alissa Starzak
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  Erin Walk

2018-07-19

At the end of 2017, Xinhua reported that there will be 200 Million IPv6 users inside Mainland China by the end of this year.. Halfway into the year, we’re seeing a rapid growth in IPv6 users and traffic originating from Mainland China....

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  Tom Paseka

2018-07-17

With Report URI growing, we're seeing a larger variety of sites use the service. With that diversity comes additional requirements that need to be met, some simple and some of them less so. ...

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  Scott Helme (Guest Author)

2018-07-14

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....

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  Junade Ali

2018-07-12

With Pride month now in our collective rearview mirror for 2018, I wanted to share what some of us have been up to at Cloudflare. We're so proud that, in the last 8 months, we've formed a LGBTQIA+ Employee Resource Group (ERG) called Proudflare....

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  Andrew Fitch

2018-07-09

This post is a part of an ongoing series comparing the performance of Cloudflare Workers with other Serverless providers. In our past tests we intentionally chose a workload which imposes virtually no CPU load (returning the current time). ...

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  Zack Bloom