After 4 days, Gabon is getting back on the Internet
On September 1, we reported that we had seen a complete shutdown of Internet access to CloudFlare sites from Gabon. This morning, Internet connectivity in Gabon appears to have been at least partially...
View ArticleWelcoming Sir Tim Berners-Lee to the CloudFlare Internet Summit
This Thursday, September 15, we are holding our second Internet Summit at our offices in San Francisco. We have a fascinating lineup of speakers covering policy, technology, privacy, and business. We...
View ArticleWebcast: Hardening Microservices Security
Microservices is one of the buzz words of the moment. Beyond the buzz, microservices architecture offers a great opportunity for developers to rethink how they design, develop, and secure applications....
View ArticleCloudFlare’s new WordPress plugin
Over 25% of all websites use WordPress, and over 10% of all internet traffic flows through CloudFlare; WordPress + CloudFlare has always been a winning combination, and now with CloudFlare’s new...
View ArticleEncryption Week
Since CloudFlare’s inception, we have worked tirelessly to make encryption as simple and as accessible as possible. Over the last two years, we’ve made CloudFlare the easiest way to enable encryption...
View ArticleIntroducing TLS 1.3
CloudFlare is turbocharging the encrypted internet The encrypted Internet is about to become a whole lot snappier. When it comes to browsing, we’ve been driving around in a beat-up car from the 90s for...
View ArticleOpportunistic Encryption: Bringing HTTP/2 to the unencrypted web
Encrypting the web is not an easy task. Various complexities prevent websites from migrating from HTTP to HTTPS, including mixed content, which can prevent sites from functioning with HTTPS....
View ArticleFixing the mixed content problem with Automatic HTTPS Rewrites
CloudFlare aims to put an end to the unencrypted Internet. But the web has a chicken and egg problem moving to HTTPS. Long ago it was difficult, expensive, and slow to set up an HTTPS capable web site....
View ArticleAn overview of TLS 1.3 and Q&A
The CloudFlare London office hosts weekly internal Tech Talks (with free lunch picked by the speaker). My recent one was an explanation of the latest version of TLS, 1.3, how it works and why it's...
View ArticleHow we brought HTTPS Everywhere to the cloud (part 1)
CloudFlare's mission is to make HTTPS accessible for all our customers. It provides security for their websites, improved ranking on search engines, better performance with HTTP/2, and access to...
View ArticleAmsterdam to Zhuzhou: Cloudflare network expands to 100 cities
We’re excited to kick off Cloudflare’s sixth birthday celebrations by announcing data center locations in 14 new cities across 5 continents. This expansion makes our global network one of the largest...
View ArticleSix years old and time for an update: CloudFlare becomes Cloudflare
Today, Cloudflare turns six years old, and if you’re reading this on our blog, you may have noticed that we look a bit different today than the cloudflare.com that you’ve visited in the past. More on...
View ArticleControl your traffic at the edge with Cloudflare
Today, we're introducing two new Cloudflare Traffic products to give customers control over how Cloudflare’s edge network handles their traffic, allowing them to shape and direct it for their specific...
View ArticleCloudflare Traffic Manager: The Details
Cloudflare's investment into building a large global network protects our customers from DDoS attacks, secures them with our Web Application Firewall and Universal SSL, as well as improving performance...
View ArticleIntroducing Dedicated SSL Certificates
When we launched Universal SSL in September 2014 we eliminated the costly and confusing process of securing a website or application with SSL, and replaced it with one free step: sign up for...
View ArticleTraffic Control: Live Demo
Cloudflare helps customers control their own traffic at the edge. One of two products that we introduced to empower customers to do so is Cloudflare Traffic Control. CC BY 2.0 image by Brian Hefele...
View ArticleCloudflare Certifies Under the New EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
Cloudflare has certified with the U.S. Department of Commerce for the new EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework. Beginning this summer, the U.S. Department of Commerce began accepting submissions to certify...
View ArticleAnnouncing New Features To Help Hosting Providers Run Their Own Reliable DNS...
Over the last six years, we’ve built the tooling, infrastructure and expertise to run a DNS network that handles our scale - we’ve answered a few million DNS queries in the few seconds since you...
View ArticleSay Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming from IoT cameras
Over the last few weeks we've seen DDoS attacks hitting our systems that show that attackers have switched to new, large methods of bringing down web applications. They appear to come from the Mirai...
View ArticleTLS nonce-nse
One of the base principles of cryptography is that you can't just encrypt multiple messages with the same key. At the very least, what will happen is that two messages that have identical plaintext...
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