Cloudflare’s Approach to Research

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This post announces the rebranding of the Cryptography Research team to Cloudflare Research, expanding its scope beyond cryptography to include more areas of computer science research. It details the hybrid research model, emphasizing embedding research engineers into product and operations teams for practical problem-solving and impact-focused, long-term projects. The post highlights open collaboration, open standards, and open source as key components of their approach, citing examples like TLS 1.3 deployment and Privacy Pass. Future focus areas are listed as security and privacy, cryptography, internet measurement, low-level networking and operating systems, and emerging networking paradigms.