Ask HN: Are you concerned by TLS-terminating proxies like Cloudflare Tunnels?

Re:Ask HN: Are you concerned by TLS-terminating proxies like... by andy_pl on Monday April 27, 2026 @04:37AM (#47919121)

Same trust assumption as any reverse-proxied or CDN-fronted service. CF terminates TLS for Tunnels, Workers, the regular proxy, and Pages alike — if CF is in your threat model, the issue isn't Tunnels specifically, it's the entire CF surface you've accepted by being on their network. The honest framing isn't "no-go for serious services" but "what does your data residency / DPA / SCC posture look like."

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Re:Ask HN: Are you concerned by TLS-terminating proxies like... by thom-gtdp on Monday April 27, 2026 @05:17AM (#47919378)

Yup Workers has similar risks as Tunnels. Cloudflare Pages isn't the same threat as Tunnels, as Pages only gives CF public data access. On Pages you trust Cloudflare for not altering the data served, while on Tunnels you trust CF for handling secret data. I actually don't really have a data residency / DPA / SCC policy because I was considering using Tunnels for my homelab only

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Re:Ask HN: Are you concerned by TLS-terminating proxies like... by andy_pl on Monday April 27, 2026 @05:52AM (#47919604)

Right, the Pages vs Tunnels split is real — different threat surfaces. For a homelab the GDPR/SCC scaffolding doesn't apply; the practical question becomes "do I trust CF more than my own ISP for opportunistic snooping," and on that axis CF's incentive structure is reasonably well-aligned.

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