“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 the most technologically advanced World Cup ever hosted. From vanishing foam and goal-line technology, to the biological passport and the […]

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 new DNS server and replaced our old DNS infrastructure with it. Doing so was greatly helped […]

Lackey being hoisted onto Sealand in the North Sea circa 2000 How 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 drawn to security for two main reasons: First, I was interested in how individuals could stand up to […]

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 engineer in the security community whom we’ve admired for some time. The company was funded by Y Combinator and angel investors from the security community. At […]

What’s in a Name Earlier 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 interest, and civil society organizations are helping us identify at-risk, in-need websites for the Project. If one these websites comes under attack, CloudFlare will make […]

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) 2.0 security control assessment, we’ve been certified as a Level 1 service provider. Achieving Level 1 status requires an assessment of our security controls by […]

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 programming language, to databases, to cryptography, and more. We’re creating a space for people interested in learning about, and hashing-out, specialized topics together; check out CloudFlare’s […]

At CloudFlare we spend a lot of time thinking about the best way to keep our customers’ data safe. Despite recent troubles, HTTPS is still the best way to deliver encrypted content for the web. As the threat landscape changes we try to keep up with best practices with respect to which cryptographic primitives we […]

Over time we’ve updated the SSL configuration we use for serving HTTPS as the security landscape has changed. In the past we’ve documented those changes in blog posts; to make things simpler to track, and so that people can stay up to date on the configuration we’ve chosen, I’ve created a Github repository called sslconfig. […]

At CloudFlare, we love connecting with our communities, and so we are excited to announce two meetups to be hosted here at the CloudFlare headquarters in San Francisco next month. All Things Crypto – 5/8/2014 On Thursday, May 8, Nick Sullivan from the security engineering team at CloudFlare will host a meetup with several cryptography […]