Roughtime: Securing Time with Digital Signatures
2018-09-21
When you visit a secure website, it offers you a TLS certificate that asserts its identity. Every certificate has an expiration date, and when it’s passed due, it is no longer valid....
Introducing the Cloudflare Onion Service
2018-09-20
Two years ago this week Cloudflare introduced Opportunistic Encryption, a feature that provided additional security and performance benefits to websites that had not yet moved to HTTPS....
RPKI and BGP: our path to securing Internet Routing
2018-09-19
This article will talk about our approach to network security using technologies like RPKI to sign Internet routes and protect our users and customers from route hijacks and misconfigurations....
RPKI - The required cryptographic upgrade to BGP routing
2018-09-19
We have talked about the BGP Internet routing protocol before. We have talked about how we build a more resilient network and how we can see outages at a country-level via BGP. We have even talked about the network community that is vital to the operation of the global Internet....
Expanding DNSSEC Adoption
2018-09-18
Cloudflare first started talking about DNSSEC in 2014 and at the time, Nick Sullivan wrote: “DNSSEC is a valuable tool for improving the trust and integrity of DNS, the backbone of the modern Internet.”...
End-to-End Integrity with IPFS
2018-09-17
This post describes how to use Cloudflare’s IPFS gateway to set up a website which is end-to-end secure, while maintaining the performance and reliability benefits of being served from Cloudflare’s edge network....
Cloudflare goes InterPlanetary - Introducing Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway
2018-09-17
Today we’re excited to introduce Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway, an easy way to access content from the the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) that doesn’t require installing and running any special software on your computer....
Welcome to Crypto Week
2018-09-17
The Internet is an amazing invention. We marvel at how it connects people, connects ideas, and makes the world smaller. But the Internet isn’t perfect. It was put together piecemeal through publicly funded research, private investment, and organic growth that has left us with an imperfect tapestry....
JAMstack podcast episode: Listen to Cloudflare's Kenton Varda speak about originless code
2018-09-15
JAMstack Radio is a show all about the JAMstack, a new way to build fast & secure apps or websites. In the most recent episode, the host, Brian Douglas, met with our own Kenton Varda to discuss some of the infinite uses for running code at the edge....
Cache API for Cloudflare Workers is now in Beta!
2018-09-14
In October of last year we announced the launch of Cloudflare Workers. Workers allow you to run JavaScript from 150+ of Cloudflare’s data centers. This means that from the moment a request hits the Cloudflare network, you have full control over its destiny. ...
Deploy Workers using Terraform
2018-09-13
Today we're excited to announce that Cloudflare Workers are now supported in the Cloudflare Terraform Provider. ...
Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia: Cloudflare's 152nd and 153rd cities
2018-09-12
Virginia has a very important place in Internet history, as well as the history of Cloudflare’s network. Northern Virginia, in the area around Ashburn VA, has for a long time been core to Internet infrastructure....
Build and Deploy Functions to Cloudflare’s 152+ Data Centers with Serverless
2018-09-11
We’re very excited to announce that Cloudflare Workers are now integrated into the Serverless framework as a serverless cloud provider!...
EU Copyright Vote: A Critical Juncture for the Open Internet
2018-09-10
Back in June, we blogged about the draft EU copyright proposal which is currently making its way through the legislative process in Brussels. ...
Fixing an old hack - why we are bumping the IPv6 MTU
2018-09-10
Back in 2015 we deployed ECMP routing - Equal Cost Multi Path - within our datacenters. This technology allowed us to spread traffic heading to a single IP address across multiple physical servers....
Bob Ross, Lorem Ipsum, Heroku and Cloudflare Workers
2018-09-09
It may not be immediately obvious how these things are related, but bear with me... It was 4pm Friday and one of the engineers on the Cloudflare Tools team came to me with an emergency. "Steve! The Bob Ross Ipsum generator is down!"....
Introducing Real World Serverless - Practical advice on how to use Cloudflare Workers
2018-09-09
We’re getting the best minds on serverless technology from Cloudflare together to lead a series of talks on practical use cases for Cloudflare Workers. Join any of these six global talks for stories of how companies and developers are using serverless in the real world. ...
Website Security Myths
2018-09-08
Some conversations are easy; some are difficult. Some are harmonious and some are laborious. But when it comes to website security, the conversation is confusing. Every organisation agrees, in theory, that their websites need to be secure....
Welcome, WP Engine!
2018-09-05
We’ve had the tremendous pleasure of working with WP Engine for nearly 5 years, starting when both companies employed less than 100 people in total. ...
Protection from Struts Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (S2-057)
2018-09-05
On August 22 a new vulnerability in the Apache Struts framework was announced. We quickly deployed a mitigation to protect customers....
