Cloudflare Research: Two Years In

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This post details Cloudflare Research's operating principles and provides case studies on password security, SSL/TLS recommender, and IP address agility. It highlights the research team's role in identifying and nurturing ideas 3-5 years out, collaborating with product and engineering teams, and incubating ideas from conception to production code. The password security case study describes the development of a privacy-preserving protocol for checking compromised credentials, integrating it into the WAF. The SSL/TLS recommender case study explains how research interns' scanning tools led to a feature that helps customers secure their sites. The IP address agility case study discusses an experiment serving free customers from a single IP in a region to address IPv4 exhaustion.