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BPF - the forgotten bytecode

Every once in a while I run into an obscure computer technology that is a hidden gem, which over the years has become mostly forgotten. This is exactly how I feel about the tcpdump tool and its kernel...

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CloudFlare Meetups: Set your mind on fire.

Education, expertise, and community: these themes define Meetups at CloudFlare. Meetups in our office bring together industry leaders, academics, and field experts to examine topics ranging from the Go...

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Welcome to Miami: HostingCon 2014

This year’s HostingCon will be held in Miami Beach, and the CloudFlare team is busy prepping. This is our fourth year at the show and our team is excited to see partners, customers and friends.You...

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CloudFlare is PCI Certified

Great news for everyone using CloudFlare on an e-commerce site, or a site accepting or processing credit card transactions.After undergoing a Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS)...

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Reset the Net with One Click

On Thursday, June 5th, 2014 Reset the Net has organized a day of awareness about protecting yourself against mass surveillance, and CloudFlare is offering an easy way for its customers to participate....

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New OpenSSL vulnerabilities: CloudFlare systems patched

The OpenSSL team announced seven vulnerabilities covering OpenSSL 0.9.8, 1.0.0, 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 (i.e. all versions) earlier today. The most serious of these is a potential man-in-the-middle attack...

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Three years after World IPv6 Day

It’s been over 1,000 days since the Internet Society’s World IPv6 Day and a lot of positive things have happened in that world of IPv6 content delivery. At CloudFlare we have not been sitting still...

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Eliminating the last reasons to not enable IPv6

Today is June 6. For the last two years, the date has been celebrated as World IPv6 Day. CloudFlare has offered full IPv6 support as well as our IPv6-to-IPv4 gateway since 2012. In preparation for this...

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Protecting Free Expression Online

Over the last few years, we’ve witnessed a troubling trend: an increasing number of politically or artistically important sites targeted by very large denial of service attacks. Often these attacks...

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Naming Project Galileo

What’s in a NameEarlier today, CloudFlare announced Project Galileo to protect free speech on the Web by using its sophisticated anti-DDoS resources. Seventeen (at last count) free speech, public...

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New .uk domains now supported

On the 10th of June, the UK domain registry Nominet made available second-level domain namespace to the public, allowing anyone to register a domain ending with simply .uk This is something the members...

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CloudFlare's 25th data center turns up to ease collective disappointment of...

After a drubbing earlier today of La Roja by The Flying Dutchmen, we felt obliged to deliver at least one piece of good news to the 34 million fútbol-loving Internet users in Spain: CloudFlare's 25th...

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Buongiorno, Milano! CloudFlare’s 26th Data Center Now Live

Team Italy exiting the data center after racking and cabling our servers (in style)Italy is known for many great things. First and foremost, the Azzurri—2006 World Cup champions and (as of yesterday)...

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CloudFlare Acquires CryptoSeal

We're excited to announce that CloudFlare has acquired the Trusted Computing and virtual private network (VPN) as a service company CryptoSeal. CryptoSeal was founded by Ryan Lackey, a well-known...

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Q&A with Ryan Lackey

Lackey being hoisted onto Sealand in the North Sea circa 2000How did you get into computer security?I started using the Internet when I was young—in the early 1990s, before I was a teenager. I was...

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Making code better with reviews

In the past we've written about how CloudFlare isn't afraid to rip out and replace chunks of code that have proved to be hard to maintain or have simply reach end of life. For example, we wrote a brand...

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Introducing the BPF Tools

In a recent article I described the basic concepts behind the use of Berkeley Packet Filter (aka BSD Packet filter or BPF) bytecode for high performance packet filtering, and the xt_bpf iptables...

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Parabéns, Brasil! CloudFlare's 27th Data Center Now Live

“Chile may have scored a CloudFlare data center first, but at least we’re still in the Cup”Brazil is home to not only the most successful national football team in history (Pentacampeão), but also to...

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ReplayLastGoal and CloudFlare: Fanning World Cup Flames

The World Cup is, at once, exhilarating and agonizing, and not just for those lucky souls in Rio or Manaus, folks working from home, or anyone else sitting happily in front of a TV. I’m talking about...

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Introducing CFSSL - CloudFlare's PKI toolkit

Today we’re proud to introduce CFSSL—our open source toolkit for everything TLS/SSL. CFSSL is used internally by CloudFlare for bundling TLS/SSL certificates chains, and for our internal Certificate...

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