Zero Trust WARP: tunneling with a MASQUE
03/06/2024
This blog discusses the introduction of MASQUE to Zero Trust WARP and how Cloudflare One customers will benefit from this modern protocol...
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A cost-effective and extensible testbed for transport protocol development
01/14/2020
At Cloudflare, we develop protocols at multiple layers of the network stack. In the past, we focused on HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and TLS 1.3. Now, we are working on QUIC and HTTP/3, which are still in IETF draft, but gaining a lot of interest....
Know your SCM_RIGHTS
11/29/2018
As TLS 1.3 was ratified earlier this year, I was recollecting how we got started with it here at Cloudflare. We made the decision to be early adopters of TLS 1.3 a little over two years ago. It was a very important decision, and we took it very seriously....
Encrypt that SNI: Firefox edition
10/18/2018
A couple of weeks ago we announced support for the encrypted Server Name Indication (SNI) TLS extension (ESNI for short). As promised, our friends at Mozilla landed support for ESNI in Firefox Nightl. ...
Encrypt it or lose it: how encrypted SNI works
09/24/2018
Today we announced support for encrypted SNI, an extension to the TLS 1.3 protocol that improves privacy of Internet users....
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A Detailed Look at RFC 8446 (a.k.a. TLS 1.3)
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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You get TLS 1.3! You get TLS 1.3! Everyone gets TLS 1.3!
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December 26, 2017 8:30 PM
Why TLS 1.3 isn't in browsers yet
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December 24, 2017 4:57 PM
TLS 1.3 is going to save us all, and other reasons why IoT is still insecure
As I’m writing this, four DDoS attacks are ongoing and being automatically mitigated by Gatebot. Cloudflare’s job is to get attacked. Our network gets attacked constantly....
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December 07, 2017 2:00 PM
CAA of the Wild: Supporting a New Standard
One thing we take pride in at Cloudflare is embracing new protocols and standards that help make the Internet faster and safer. Sometimes this means that we’ll launch support for experimental features or standards still under active development, as we did with TLS 1.3....
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December 06, 2017 2:00 PM
Make SSL boring again
It may (or may not!) come as surprise, but a few months ago we migrated Cloudflare’s edge SSL connection termination stack to use BoringSSL: Google's crypto and SSL implementation that started as a fork of OpenSSL....
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September 01, 2017 8:48 PM
SIDH in Go for quantum-resistant TLS 1.3
Most of today's cryptography is designed to be secure against an adversary with enormous amounts of computational power. This means estimating how much work certain computations require, and choosing cryptographic parameters based on our best estimates....
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March 15, 2017 2:00 PM
Introducing Zero Round Trip Time Resumption (0-RTT)
Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a faster and more secure Internet. Over the last several years, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has been working on a new version of TLS, the protocol that powers the secure web....
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February 15, 2017 12:49 AM
NCC Group's Cryptography Services audits our Go TLS 1.3 stack
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February 01, 2017 2:57 PM
TLS 1.3 explained by the Cloudflare Crypto Team at 33c3
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