Traffic Sequence: Which Product Runs First?
2021-10-20
Understand how Cloudflare product’s interact via the new dashboard addition ‘Traffic Sequence’....
Getting Cloudflare Tunnels to connect to the Cloudflare Network with QUIC
2021-10-20
It is now possible to connect a Cloudflare Tunnel to the Cloudflare network with QUIC. While doing this, we ran into an interesting connectivity problem unique to UDP. ...
Zero Trust — Not a Buzzword
2021-10-20
Over the last few years, Zero Trust, a term coined by Forrester, picked up a lot of steam. Zero Trust, in its core, is a network architecture and security framework focusing on not having a distinction between external and internal access environments, and never trusting users/roles. ...
Backwards-compatibility in Cloudflare Workers
2021-10-19
On the Workers team, we have a policy: A change to the Workers Runtime must never break an application that is live in production....
Crawler Hints Update: Cloudflare Supports IndexNow and Announces General Availability
2021-10-18
Crawler Hints now supports IndexNow, a new protocol that allows websites to notify search engines whenever content on their website content is created, updated, or deleted. ...
Tunnel: Cloudflare’s Newest Homeowner
2021-10-18
Starting today, users who deploy and manage Cloudflare Tunnel at scale now have easier visibility into their Tunnel’s respective status, routes, uptime, connectors, cloudflared version, and much more through our new UI in the Cloudflare for Teams Dashboard. ...
Introducing Cloudflare’s Technology Partner Program
2021-10-15
We aim to continue expanding our ecosystem of programs and partners to make it seamless for our customers to use Cloudflare. To support our growing ecosystem of partners, we are excited to launch our Technology Partner Program....
Kicking Off Cloudflare's Summer 2022 Internship Program
2021-10-15
This upcoming summer, we expect to have the largest intern class ever at Cloudflare....
“Look, Ma, no probes!” — Characterizing CDNs’ latencies with passive measurement
2021-10-15
A challenge with measuring and comparing network performance is the lack of large-scale global performance metrics, like RTT measurements. In this article we describe an alternative approach to active measurements, which accurately predicts network latencies using only passively collected data....
Multi-User IP Address Detection
2021-10-15
We’ve devised novel methods to detect multi-user IP addresses, and today we’re excited to announce their integration into our global threat intelligence products. These will improve the quality of our detection techniques and reduce false positives for our customers, and the clients that visit them....
Geo Key Manager: Setting up a service for scale
2021-10-15
Diagnosing scaling issues in a service associated with TLS termination through a deep dive into some of the incidents it caused....
Privacy-Preserving Compromised Credential Checking
2021-10-14
Announcing a public demo and open-sourced implementation of a privacy-preserving compromised credential checking service...
Unbuckling the narrow waist of IP: Addressing Agility for Names and Web Services
2021-10-14
IP addresses associated with names, interfaces, and sockets, can tie these things together in a way that IP was never designed to support. This post describes Cloudflare efforts to decouple of IP addresses from names, the latest in a quest for something we’re calling Addressing Agility....
Research Directions in Password Security
2021-10-14
We've been studying password problems, including malicious logins using compromised credentials. Here's what we learned and here's where we think we can go from here with safer password systems....
Cloudflare and the IETF
2021-10-13
Cloudflare helps build a better Internet through collaboration on open and interoperable standards. This post will describe how Cloudflare contributes to the standardization process to enable incremental innovation and drive long-term architectural change....
Pairings in CIRCL
2021-10-13
Our Go cryptographic library CIRCL announces support for pairing-based cryptography....
Exported Authenticators: The long road to RFC
2021-10-13
Learn more about Exported Authenticators, a new extension to TLS, currently going through the IETF standardisation process....
Coalescing Connections to Improve Network Privacy and Performance
2021-10-13
Real world experiments for evaluating connection coalescing effects....
Introducing SSL/TLS Recommender
2021-10-12
Introducing customized recommendations to improve the security of your website....
Dynamic Process Isolation: Research by Cloudflare and TU Graz
2021-10-12
Cloudflare worked with TU Graz to study the impact of Spectre on Cloudflare Workers and to develop new defenses against it. Today we're publishing a paper about our research....