The Raspberry Pi was created with a simple mission in mind: change the way people interact with computers. This inexpensive, credit card-sized machine is encouraging people, especially kids, to start playing with computers, not on them. When the first computers came out, basic programming skills were necessary. This was the age of the Amigas, BBC […]

We’re pleased to introduce a new CloudFlare App: Tinfoil Security. Tinfoil Security is a service designed to find possible web application vulnerabilities. Security is central to CloudFlare’s service. Our security features operate at the network level to identify and block malicious traffic from ever reaching your website or application. However, even with that protection in […]

One of the services that CloudFlare provides to paying customers is called Polish. Polish automatically recompresses images cached by CloudFlare to ensure that they are as small as possible and can be delivered to web browsers as quickly as possible. We’ve recently rolled out a new version of Polish that uses updated techniques (and was […]

“What’s that? CloudFlare’s 28th data center is in Medellin, Colombia!?” With the World Cup at an end, so too is our latest round of data center expansion. Following deployments in Madrid, Milan and São Paulo, we are thrilled to announce our 28th data center in Medellin, Colombia. Most of Colombia’s 22 million Internet users are […]

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 Authority infrastructure. We use this tool for all our TLS certificates. Creating a certificate bundle is a common pain point for website operators, and doing it right […]

“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 […]