Keyless SSL: The Nitty Gritty Technical Details
Interesting how they specifically refer to yesterday's discussion here on HN and over at Reddit, but don't go into the frequently mentioned complaint that despite not having access to the PK itself, Cloudflare can still intercept and modify all cleartext sent between the client and server, which for most intents and purposes means pretty much the same. Maybe not intentionally so, but it comes off as slightly misleading, because many people I spoke to who briefly skimmed the original announcement thought "keyless SSL" would mean this is no longer the case.Let me ask again: why not offer a setup where Cloudflare only acts on the network layer instead of on the application layer and proxies the still-encrypted HTTPS packets to the destination server? This would mean a customer could not use Cloudflare's caching (CDN) features, but still enjoy their DDOS protection without them being able to see all my customer's private details. If I were the CISO at one of the world's largest banks, that is exactly what I would want.