后量子加密正式发布

在过去的十二个月里，我们一直在讨论互联网上的新加密基准：后量子加密。去年生日周期间，我们宣布我们的 Kyber 测试版可供测试，且 Cloudflare Tunnel 可启用后量子加密。今年早些时候，我们明确表示这项基础技术应该永久免费提供给所有人使用。

经过六年的努力和 31 篇博客文章的酝酿，我们今天正式发布对我们客户、服务和内部系统的后量子加密支持，详情如下。支持的产品包括 Pingora （源连接）、1.1.1.1、R2、Argo Smart Routing、Snippets 等等。

这对互联网来说是一个里程碑。我们目前还不知道量子计算机何时会强大到足以破解现今的加密技术，但是现在升级到后量子加密的好处是显而易见的。由于 Cloudflare、Google、Mozilla、美国国家标准与技术研究院、互联网工程任务组以及众多学术机构取得的进展，快速连接和面向未来的安全性在今天才成为可能。

正式发布意味着什么？2022 年 10 月，我们为通过 Cloudflare 服务的所有网站和 API 启用 X25519+Kyber 测试版。然而，一个巴掌拍不响：只有浏览器也支持后量子加密，才能确保连接的安全。2023 年 8 月起，Chrome逐渐默认启用 X25519+Kyber。

用户的请求通过 Cloudflare 的网络进行路由（2）。我们已经升级了许多这些内部连接以使用后量子加密，并预计到 2024 年底将完成所有内部连接的升级。这使得连接（3）成为我们与源服务器之间的最后一环。

我们很高兴能正式推出对大部分入站和出站连接的 X25519+Kyber 支持，适用于源服务器和 Cloudflare Workers fetch()。

对于我们的 Enterprise 客户，我们将在接下来的六个月内定期发出更多信息，以帮助您准备迎接这一推出。Pro、Business 和 Enterprise 客户可以跳过这一推出，提前使用我们中相关博客文章描述的 API，在您的区域内选择加入或者退出。在 2024 年 2 月为 Enterprise 客户推出之前，我们将在仪表板上添加一个切换按钮，以选择退出。

如果您希望马上开始，请查看我们的博客文章以了解技术细节，并通过 API 启用后量子加密支持!

包括什么？下一步是什么？

对于如此大规模的升级，我们希望首先专注于我们最常用的产品，然后扩展以覆盖边缘用例。因此本次推出包括如下产品和系统：

如果您使用的产品或服务未在此处列出，那么我们尚未开始为其推出后量子加密支持。我们正在积极推出对所有产品和服务的后量子加密支持，包括我们的 Zero Trust 产品。在我们实现所有系统的后量子加密支持之前，我们将在每个创新周发布更新博客文章，介绍我们已经为哪些产品推出了后量子加密，下一步将支持的产品以及未来的计划。

我们将在不久后为以下产品提供后量子加密支持：

为什么现在要推出这项服务？

正如我们今年早些时候宣布的那样，后量子加密将免费包含在所有能够支持的 Cloudflare 产品和服务中。最好的加密技术应该对每个人免费开放，以帮助支持全球的隐私和人权。

正如我们在 3 月所提到的：

“曾经的实验性前沿已经变成了现代社会的基础结构。它运行在我们最关键的基础设施中，例如电力系统、医院、机场和银行。我们将最珍贵的记忆托付给它。我们把秘密托付给它。这就是为什么互联网需要默认是私密的。它需要默认是安全的。”

我们对后量子加密技术的研究是基于这样一个论点，即量子计算机可以破解传统密码学，产生类似于“千年虫”的问题。我们知道未来会出现一个问题，可能会给用户、企业甚至国家带来灾难性的后果。这一次的区别在于，我们不知道这种计算范式的突破将会在何年何月发生。更糟糕的是，今天捕获的任何流量在未来可能会被解密。我们今天就需要为应对这种威胁做好准备。

我们很高兴每个人都能在他们的系统中采用后量子加密技术。要了解我们部署后量子加密和第三方客户端/服务器支持的最新进展， 请访问 pq.cloudflareresearch.com 并关注本博客。

¹我们正在使用 Kyber （NIST 选择的后量子密钥协商算法）的一个初步版本。Kyber 尚未最终定稿。我们预计最终标准将在 2024 年以 ML-KEM 的名称发布，届时我们将迅速采用该标准，并停止支持 X25519Kyber768Draft00。

Disponibilidad general de la criptografía poscuántica

Durante los últimos 12 meses, hemos estado hablando sobre la nueva línea base de la encriptación en Internet: la criptografía poscuántica. El año pasado, durante la Semana aniversario anunciamos la disponibilidad de nuestra versión beta de Kyber para fines de prueba, y que Cloudflare Tunnel se podría activar con la criptografía poscuántica. Este mismo año, dejamos clara nuestra postura de que creemos que esta tecnología fundamental debería estar disponible para todos de forma gratuita, siempre.

Hoy, tras seis años y 31 publicaciones del blog, hemos alcanzado un hito importante: estamos empezando a implementar la disponibilidad general  del soporte de la criptografía poscuántica para nuestros clientes, servicios y sistemas internos, tal como se describe más detalladamente a continuación. Esto incluye productos como Pingora para la conectividad de origen, 1.1.1.1, R2, Argo Smart Routing, Snippets y muchos más.

Esto es un hito para Internet. No sabemos aún cuándo los ordenadores cuánticos alcanzarán la escala suficiente para descifrar la criptografía actual, pero las ventajas de actualizar ahora a la criptografía cuántica son evidentes. Las conexiones rápidas y una seguridad preparada para el futuro son posibles hoy gracias a los avances logrados por Cloudflare, Google, Mozilla, el Instituto Nacional de Continue reading

Post-Quanten-Kryptographie allgemein verfügbar

In den letzten zwölf Monaten haben wir über die neue Grundlage der Verschlüsselung im Internet gesprochen: Post-Quanten-Kryptographie. Während der Birthday Week im letzten Jahr haben wir angekündigt, dass unsere Beta-Version von Kyber zu Testzwecken verfügbar ist und dass Post-Quanten-Kryptografie für Cloudflare Tunnel aktiviert werden kann. Anfang dieses Jahres haben wir uns klar dafür ausgesprochen, dass diese grundlegende Technologie für alle kostenlos und dauerhaft verfügbar sein sollte.

Heute haben wir nach sechs Jahren und 31 Blog-Beiträgen einen Meilenstein erreicht: Wir führen die allgemeine Verfügbarkeit der Unterstützung für Post-Quanten-Kryptographie für unsere Kunden, Dienste und internen Systeme ein, wie im Folgenden genauer beschrieben. Dazu gehören Produkte wie Pingora für Konnektivität von Ursprungsservern, 1.1.1.1, R2, Argo Smart Routing, Snippets und viele mehr.

Dies ist ein Meilenstein für das Internet. Wir wissen noch nicht, wann Quantencomputer leistungsstark genug sein werden, um die heutige Kryptographie zu knacken, aber die Vorteile, jetzt auf Post-Quanten-Kryptographie umzusteigen, liegen auf der Hand. Schnelle Verbindungen und vorausschauende Sicherheit sind dank der Fortschritte von Cloudflare, Google, Mozilla, den National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) in den USA, der Internet Engineering Task Force und zahlreichen akademischen Einrichtungen heute möglich.

Was bedeutet Allgemeine Verfügbarkeit (GA)? Im Oktober 2022 aktivierten wir Continue reading

La cryptographie post-quantique passe en disponibilité générale

Au cours des douze derniers mois, nous avons parlé de la nouvelle référence en matière de chiffrement sur Internet : la cryptographie post-quantique. Durant la Semaine anniversaire, l'année dernière, nous avons annoncé que notre version bêta de Kyber était disponible à des fins de test, et que Cloudflare Tunnel pouvait être mis en œuvre avec la cryptographie post-quantique. Au début de l'année, nous avons clairement indiqué que nous estimons que cette technologie fondamentale devait être accessible à tous, gratuitement et pour toujours.

Aujourd'hui, nous avons franchi une étape importante, après six ans et 31 articles de blog : nous lançons le déploiement de la prise en charge de la cryptographie post-quantique en disponibilité générale¹ pour nos clients, nos services et nos systèmes internes ; nous le décrivons plus en détail ci-dessous. Ce déploiement inclut des produits tels que Pingora pour la connectivité aux serveurs d'origine, 1.1.1.1, R2, le routage intelligent Argo, Snippets et bien d'autres.

Il s'agit d'une étape importante pour Internet. Nous ne savons pas encore quand les ordinateurs quantiques deviendront suffisamment puissants pour briser la cryptographie actuelle, mais les avantages qu'offre l'adoption de la cryptographie post-quantique sont aujourd'hui manifestes. Des connexions rapides et Continue reading

Encrypted Client Hello – the last puzzle piece to privacy

Today we are excited to announce a contribution to improving privacy for everyone on the Internet. Encrypted Client Hello, a new proposed standard that prevents networks from snooping on which websites a user is visiting, is now available on all Cloudflare plans.  

Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) is a successor to ESNI and masks the Server Name Indication (SNI) that is used to negotiate a TLS handshake. This means that whenever a user visits a website on Cloudflare that has ECH enabled, no one except for the user, Cloudflare, and the website owner will be able to determine which website was visited. Cloudflare is a big proponent of privacy for everyone and is excited about the prospects of bringing this technology to life.

Browsing the Internet and your privacy

Whenever you visit a website, your browser sends a request to a web server. The web server responds with content and the website starts loading in your browser. Way back in the early days of the Internet this happened in 'plain text', meaning that your browser would just send bits across the network that everyone could read: the corporate network you may be browsing from, the Internet Service Provider that offers Continue reading

Privacy-preserving measurement and machine learning

In 2023, data-driven approaches to making decisions are the norm. We use data for everything from analyzing x-rays to translating thousands of languages to directing autonomous cars. However, when it comes to building these systems, the conventional approach has been to collect as much data as possible, and worry about privacy as an afterthought.

The problem is, data can be sensitive and used to identify individuals – even when explicit identifiers are removed or noise is added.

Cloudflare Research has been interested in exploring different approaches to this question: is there a truly private way to perform data collection, especially for some of the most sensitive (but incredibly useful!) technology?

Some of the use cases we’re thinking about include: training federated machine learning models for predictive keyboards without collecting every user’s keystrokes; performing a census without storing data about individuals’ responses; providing healthcare authorities with data about COVID-19 exposures without tracking peoples’ locations en masse; figuring out the most common errors browsers are experiencing without reporting which websites are visiting.  

It’s with those use cases in mind that we’ve been participating in the Privacy Preserving Measurement working group at the IETF whose goal is to develop systems Continue reading

Cloudflare now uses post-quantum cryptography to talk to your origin server

Quantum computers pose a serious threat to security and privacy of the Internet: encrypted communication intercepted today can be decrypted in the future by a sufficiently advanced quantum computer. To counter this store-now/decrypt-later threat, cryptographers have been hard at work over the last decades proposing and vetting post-quantum cryptography (PQC), cryptography that’s designed to withstand attacks of quantum computers. After a six-year public competition, in July 2022, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), known for standardizing AES and SHA, announced Kyber as their pick for post-quantum key agreement. Now the baton has been handed to Industry to deploy post-quantum key agreement to protect today’s communications from the threat of future decryption by a quantum computer.

Cloudflare operates as a reverse proxy between clients (“visitors”) and customers’ web servers (“origins”), so that we can protect origin sites from attacks and improve site performance. In this post we explain how we secure the connection from Cloudflare to origin servers. To put that in context, let’s have a look at the connection involved when visiting an uncached page on a website served through Cloudflare.

The first connection is from the visitor’s browser to Cloudflare. In October 2022, we enabled X25519+Kyber Continue reading

Network performance update: Birthday Week 2023

We constantly measure our own network’s performance against other networks, look for ways to improve our performance compared to them, and share the results of our efforts. Since June 2021, we’ve been sharing benchmarking results we’ve run against other networks to see how we compare.

In this post we are going to share the most recent updates since our last post in June, and tell you about our tools and processes that we use to monitor and improve our network performance.

How we stack up

Since June 2021, we’ve been taking a close look at every single network and taking actions for the specific networks where we have some room for improvement. Cloudflare was already the fastest provider for most of the networks around the world (we define a network as country and AS number pair). Taking a closer look at the numbers; in July 2022, Cloudflare was ranked #1 in 33% of the networks and was within 2 ms (95th percentile TCP Connection Time) or 5% of the #1 provider for 8% of the networks that we measured. For reference, our closest competitor on that front was the fastest for 20% of networks.

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See what threats are lurking in your Office 365 with Cloudflare Email Retro Scan

We are now announcing the ability for Cloudflare customers to scan old messages within their Office 365 Inboxes for threats. This Retro Scan will let you look back seven days and see what threats your current email security tool has missed.

Why run a Retro Scan

Speaking with customers, we often hear that they do not know the condition of their organization’s mailboxes. Organizations have an email security tool or use Microsoft’s built-in protection but do not understand how effective their current solution is. We find that these tools often let malicious emails through their filters increasing the risk of compromise within the company.

In our pursuit to help build a better Internet, we are enabling Cloudflare customers to use Retro Scan to scan messages within their inboxes using our advanced machine learning models for free. Our Retro Scan will detect and highlight any threats we find so that customers can clean up their inboxes by addressing them within their email accounts. With this information, customers can also implement additional controls, such as using Cloudflare or their preferred solution, to prevent similar threats from reaching their mailbox in the future.

Running a Retro Scan

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Detecting zero-days before zero-day

We are constantly researching ways to improve our products. For the Web Application Firewall (WAF), the goal is simple: keep customer web applications safe by building the best solution available on the market.

In this blog post we talk about our approach and ongoing research into detecting novel web attack vectors in our WAF before they are seen by a security researcher. If you are interested in learning about our secret sauce, read on.

This post is the written form of a presentation first delivered at Black Hat USA 2023.

The value of a WAF

Many companies offer web application firewalls and application security products with a total addressable market forecasted to increase for the foreseeable future.

In this space, vendors, including ourselves, often like to boast the importance of their solution by presenting ever-growing statistics around threats to web applications. Bigger numbers and scarier stats are great ways to justify expensive investments in web security. Taking a few examples from our very own application security report research (see our latest report here):

The numbers above all translate to real value: yes, a large portion of Internet HTTP traffic is malicious, therefore you could mitigate a non-negligible amount Continue reading

Post-quantum cryptography goes GA

Over the last twelve months, we have been talking about the new baseline of encryption on the Internet: post-quantum cryptography. During Birthday Week last year we announced that our beta of Kyber was available for testing, and that Cloudflare Tunnel could be enabled with post-quantum cryptography. Earlier this year, we made our stance clear that this foundational technology should be available to everyone for free, forever.

Today, we have hit a milestone after six years and 31 blog posts in the making: we’re starting to roll out General Availability¹ of post-quantum cryptography support to our customers, services, and internal systems as described more fully below. This includes products like Pingora for origin connectivity, 1.1.1.1, R2, Argo Smart Routing, Snippets, and so many more.

This is a milestone for the Internet. We don't yet know when quantum computers will have enough scale to break today's cryptography, but the benefits of upgrading to post-quantum cryptography now are clear. Fast connections and future-proofed security are all possible today because of the advances made by Cloudflare, Google, Mozilla, the National Institutes of Standards and Technology in the United States, the Internet Engineering Task Force, and numerous academic institutions

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Découvrez les menaces qui se dissimulent dans votre boîte aux lettres Office 365 avec Cloudflare Email Retro Scan

Nous annonçons maintenant la possibilité pour les clients de Cloudflare d'analyser les anciens messages dans leurs boîtes de réception Office 365 afin de détecter les menaces. Le service Retro Scan vous permet de revenir sept jours en arrière, afin d'identifier les menaces qui n'ont pas été détectées par votre outil de sécurité actuel.

Pourquoi exécuter le service Retro Scan

Lorsque nous échangeons avec nos clients, ces derniers nous apprennent souvent qu'ils n'ont pas connaissance de l'état des boîtes aux lettres de leur entreprise. Les entreprises disposent d'un outil de sécurité des e-mails, ou elles utilisent la protection intégrée de Microsoft, mais elles ne sont pas en mesure de comprendre l'efficacité de leur solution actuelle. Nous constatons que les filtres de ces outils laissent souvent passer des e-mails malveillants, augmentant le risque de compromission de données au sein des entreprises.

Conformément à notre engagement de contribuer à bâtir un Internet meilleur, nous permettons désormais aux clients de Cloudflare d'utiliser Retro Scan pour analyser les messages dans leurs boîtes de réception à l'aide de nos modèles d'apprentissage automatique avancés – et ce, gratuitement. Notre service Retro Scan détectera et mettra en évidence toutes les menaces que nous identifions, afin de permettre aux Continue reading

Sehen Sie, welche Bedrohungen in Ihrem Office 365 lauern – mit dem Retro Scan von Cloudflare für E-Mails

Ab sofort können Cloudflare-Kunden alte Nachrichten in ihren Office 365-Postfächern auf Bedrohungen hin scannen. Mit dem Retro Scan können Sie jeweils die vergangenen sieben Tage überprüfen, um zu sehen, welche Bedrohungen Ihrem aktuellen E-Mail-Sicherheitstool entgangen sind.

Gründe für den Einsatz eines Retro Scan

Kunden berichten uns oft, dass sie nicht wissen, in welchem Zustand die E-Mail-Postfächer ihrer Unternehmen sind. Firmen nutzen ein E-Mail-Sicherheitstool oder den bei Microsoft integrierten Schutz. Oft ist wissen sie aber nicht, wie effektiv ihre aktuelle Lösung tatsächlich arbeitet. Wir haben festgestellt, dass schädliche E-Mails von diesen Werkzeugen oft nicht herausgefiltert werden, wodurch sich das Risiko einer Kompromittierung innerhalb des Unternehmens erhöht.

Im Rahmen unserer Bemühungen, ein besseres Internet zu schaffen, stellen wir Cloudflare-Kunden nun einen Retro Scan zur Verfügung. Mit diesem können sie Nachrichten in ihren Postfächern unter Einsatz fortschrittlicher Machine Learning-Modelle kostenlos scannen. Unser Retro Scan erkennt Bedrohungen und weist auf diese hin, sodass Kunden ihre Postfächer durch eine Behebung innerhalb ihrer E-Mail-Konten bereinigen können. Mit diesen Informationen sind sie außerdem in der Lage, herkömmliche Kontrollen zu implementieren. Sie können also Cloudflare oder ihre bevorzugte Lösung einsetzen, um vergleichbare Bedrohungen in Zukunft daran zu hindern, ihre Postfach überhaupt erst zu erreichen.

Einsatz des Retro Scan

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Veja quais ameaças estão escondidas no seu Office 365 com o Cloudflare Email Retro Scan

Agora anunciamos a possibilidade de os clientes da Cloudflare verificarem mensagens antigas em suas caixas de entrada do Office 365 em busca de ameaças. Este Retro Scan permitirá que você analise sete dias atrás e veja quais ameaças sua ferramenta de segurança de e-mail atual deixou passar.

Por que executar um Retro Scan

Conversando com os clientes, ouvimos frequentemente que eles não sabem o estado das caixas de entrada de suas organizações. As organizações possuem uma ferramenta de segurança de e-mail ou usam a proteção integrada da Microsoft, mas não entendem a eficácia de sua solução atual. Descobrimos que essas ferramentas muitas vezes permitem que e-mails maliciosos passem por seus filtros, aumentando o risco de comprometimento dentro da empresa.

Em nossa busca para ajudar a construir uma internet melhor, disponibilizamos para os clientes da Cloudflare o uso do Retro Scan para verificar mensagens em suas caixas de entrada usando nossos modelos avançados de aprendizado de máquina gratuitamente. Nosso Retro Scan detecta e destaca quaisquer ameaças que encontrarmos, assim os clientes podem limpar suas caixas de entrada tratando-as em suas contas de e-mail. Com essas informações, os clientes também podem implementar controles adicionais, como usar a Cloudflare ou sua solução preferida, Continue reading

Descubre qué amenazas acechan tu buzón de correo de Office 365 con Cloudflare Email Retro Scan

Ahora los clientes de Cloudflare pueden analizar viejos mensajes de sus bandejas de entrada de Office 365 en busca de amenazas. Retro Scan te permitirá observar qué amenazas ha pasado por alto tu actual herramienta de seguridad del correo electrónico en los últimos siete días.

Por qué ejecutar Retro Scan

Al hablar con los clientes, solemos escuchar que no conocen el estado de los buzones de correo de sus organizaciones. Las organizaciones tienen una herramienta de seguridad para correo electrónico o usan la protección integrada de Microsoft, pero no entienden qué nivel de efectividad tiene la actual solución. A menudo, descubrimos que estas herramientas permiten el paso de correos electrónicos maliciosos a través de sus filtros, lo que aumenta el riesgo en la empresa.

En nuestra búsqueda de ayudar a crear un mejor servicio de Internet, permitimos a los clientes de Cloudflare el uso de Retro Scan para analizar mensajes en sus buzones de entrada con nuestros modelos de aprendizaje automático avanzados, ¡gratis! Nuestro Retro Scan detecta y resalta las amenazas que encontramos para que los clientes puedan limpiar sus buzones de entrada y gestionarlas dentro de sus cuentas de correo electrónico. Con esta información, los clientes también pueden implementar Continue reading

클라우드, 네트워크, 애플리케이션 및 사용자를 연결하고 보호하는 현대적인 방법인 클라우드 연결성으로 여러분을 모십니다

우리가 근무하면서 가장 좋아하는 부분은 Cloudflare 고객과 대화하는 시간입니다. 고객의 IT 및 보안 문제에 대하여 항상 새롭고 흥미로운 사실을 알게 됩니다.

최근 이러한 대화에 변화가 있었습니다. 고객이 언급하는 가장 큰 문제를 쉽게 정의할 수 없는 경우가 점점 더 많아집니다. 그리고 이러한 문제는 개별 제품이나 주요 기능으로 대처할 수 없는 것입니다.

더 정확히 말하면 IT 및 보안 팀에서는 디지털 환경에 대한 제어 능력을 잃고 있다고 이야기합니다.

제어 능력 상실은 다양한 형태를 띱니다. 고객은 호환성이 걱정되므로 필요성은 알지만 새로운 기능을 채택하는 것을 꺼리는 모습을 보일 수 있습니다. 아니면 비교적 단순한 변경 사항을 적용하는 데 시간과 노력이 많이 들며, 이러한 변경 사항 때문에 더 큰 영향력이 있을 작업에 투입할 시간을 빼앗기고 있다고 언급할 수도 있습니다. 고객이 느끼는 감정을 요약하자면 "팀이나 예산의 규모가 아무리 크더라도 비즈니스를 완벽하게 연결하고 보호하는 데는 절대 충분하지 않다"는 것입니다.

익숙하게 느껴지는 부분이 있으신가요? 그런 부분이 있다 해도 여러분 혼자 그렇게 느끼는 건 아닙니다.

제어 능력을 상실하는 이유

IT 및 보안이 바뀌는 속도는 빨라지고 있으며 무섭도록 복잡해지고 있습니다. IT 및 보안 팀에서는 과거에 비해 더 다양한 기술 도메인을 책임지고 있습니다. 최근 Forrester 연구에서 확인된 변화에 따르면 사내, 원격, 하이브리드 근무자를 보호할 책임이 있는 팀의 52%만이 지난 5년 동안 이러한 책임을 맡았습니다. 한편 46%는 해당 기간 동안 퍼블릭 클라우드 애플리케이션을 Continue reading

Cloudflare is free of CAPTCHAs; Turnstile is free for everyone

For years, we’ve written that CAPTCHAs drive us crazy. Humans give up on CAPTCHA puzzles approximately 15% of the time and, maddeningly, CAPTCHAs are significantly easier for bots to solve than they are for humans. We’ve spent the past three and a half years working to build a better experience for humans that’s just as effective at stopping bots. As of this month, we’ve finished replacing every CAPTCHA issued by Cloudflare with Turnstile, our new CAPTCHA replacement (pictured below). Cloudflare will never issue another visual puzzle to anyone, for any reason.

Now that we’ve eliminated CAPTCHAs at Cloudflare, we want to make it easy for anyone to do the same, even if they don’t use other Cloudflare services. We’ve decoupled Turnstile from our platform so that any website operator on any platform can use it just by adding a few lines of code. We’re thrilled to announce that Turnstile is now generally available, and Turnstile’s ‘Managed’ mode is now completely free to everyone for unlimited use.

Easy on humans, hard on bots, private for everyone

There’s a lot that goes into Turnstile’s simple checkbox to ensure that it’s easy for everyone, preserves user privacy, and does its job stopping bots. Continue reading

Easily manage AI crawlers with our new bot categories

Today, we’re excited to announce that any Cloudflare user, on any plan, can choose specific categories of bots that they want to allow or block, including AI crawlers.

As the popularity of generative AI has grown, content creators and policymakers around the world have started to ask questions about what data AI companies are using to train their models without permission. As with all new innovative technologies, laws will likely need to evolve to address different parties' interests and what’s best for society at large. While we don’t know how it will shake out, we believe that website operators should have an easy way to block unwanted AI crawlers and to also let AI bots know when they are permitted to crawl their websites.

The good news is that Cloudflare already automatically stops scraper bots today. But we want to make it even easier for customers to be sure they are protected, see how frequently AI scrapers might be visiting their sites, and respond to them in more targeted ways. We also recognize that not all AI crawlers are the same and that some AI companies are looking for clear instructions for when they should not crawl a public website.

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Nvidia’s French offices raided for anticompetitive practices: Report

France’s competition watchdog has raided the local offices of chipmaker Nvidia while investigating anticompetitive practices in the graphics cards sector with a focus on cloud computing.While the competition watchdog did not confirm the identity of the entity being investigated or the practice in question, a report from The Wall Street Journal cited sources saying that the raids targeted Nvidia.The watchdog, however, confirmed that the operation was a result of it trying to investigate the graphics cards sector as part of an expanded study to understand anticompetitive practices in the cloud computing sector. The study, according to the watchdog, was started in January 2022.To read this article in full, please click here

Nvidia’s French offices raided for anti-competitive practices: Report

France’s competition watchdog has raided the local offices of chipmaker Nvidia while investigating anti-competitive practices in the graphics cards sector with a focus on cloud computing.While the competition watchdog did not confirm the identity of the entity being investigated or the practice in question, a report from The Wall Street Journal cited sources saying that the raids conducted targeted Nvidia.The watchdog, however, confirmed that the operation was a result of it trying to investigate the graphics cards sector as part of an expanded study to understand anti-competitive practices in the cloud computing sector. The study, according to the watchdog, was started in January 2022.To read this article in full, please click here