Celebrating CloudFlare's 4th Birthday

Re:Celebrating CloudFlare's 4th Birthday by scaz on Saturday September 27, 2014 @09:51AM (#8377014)

First letter of each paragraph = "SSL TLS FREE".

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Re:Celebrating CloudFlare's 4th Birthday by zuck9 on Saturday September 27, 2014 @10:23AM (#8377084)

Nice catch. I believe everyone who saw the past blog posts can easily guess "the big thing" they are going to announce on Monday. I was thinking "free SSL" since the 2nd/3rd paragraph.

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Re:Celebrating CloudFlare's 4th Birthday by yetanotherHNacc on Saturday September 27, 2014 @11:53AM (#8377326)

How on Earth do people spot things like this? <_<

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Re:Celebrating CloudFlare's 4th Birthday by espadrine on Sunday September 28, 2014 @05:52AM (#8379327)

The clue was in the text.

> Finally, for people who like puzzles we've left a clue to our announcement right here on this page. With a little lateral thinking you may be able to figure it out.

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Re:Celebrating CloudFlare's 4th Birthday by yetanotherHNacc on Monday September 29, 2014 @12:49AM (#8381735)

Well dang, that is a very good clue.

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Re:Celebrating CloudFlare's 4th Birthday by timdorr on Saturday September 27, 2014 @11:14AM (#8377205)

Time to go grab a cert from startssl.com for free. No more excuses for not having an SSL site.

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Re:Celebrating CloudFlare's 4th Birthday by paukiatwee on Saturday September 27, 2014 @11:35AM (#8377270)

I think CloudFlare "free SSL" is CloudFlare-issued instead of Custom Cert, which I think it is good enough. If their "free SSL" allow free plan customers to upload Custom Cert, that is even awesome.

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Re:Celebrating CloudFlare's 4th Birthday by spindritf on Saturday September 27, 2014 @11:27AM (#8377247)

CloudFlare will probably supply their own certificates so you won't even need to do that.

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Re:Celebrating CloudFlare's 4th Birthday by psykovsky on Saturday September 27, 2014 @12:20PM (#8377402)

Shouldn't we all be glad with it? HTTPS-MITM-as-a-service... and authorized... awesome!

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Re:Celebrating CloudFlare's 4th Birthday by timdorr on Saturday September 27, 2014 @01:25PM (#8377595)

Even better! One-click cert gen and installation would be magical!

StartSSL is nice because you don't need create a csr. But Cloudflare could make it simpler still, since you've already got domain-level verification through them implicitly. And if you need a better trust chain for your certs, then you can provide your own.

This just got even more exciting!

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Re:Celebrating CloudFlare's 4th Birthday by iancarroll on Saturday September 27, 2014 @01:34PM (#8377623)

StartSSL's <keygen> for SSL is good but it's not great - mainly, you have to give your computer access to the SSL key and your server, as opposed to only your server storing the key (and you providing StartSSL a CSR)

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Re:Celebrating CloudFlare's 4th Birthday by spindritf on Saturday September 27, 2014 @03:14PM (#8377900)

StartSSL is nice because you don't need create a csr.

You should though.

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