Website Security & Threat Management
Privacy Gateway: a privacy preserving proxy built on Internet standards

Privacy Gateway: a privacy preserving proxy built on Internet standards

10/27/2022 · Mari Galicer, Christopher Wood

What this post added

Introduced Privacy Gateway, a privacy-preserving proxy built on Internet standards (Oblivious HTTP - OHTTP) and hybrid public-key cryptography. Privacy Gateway encrypts HTTP requests and responses between a client and an application server, ensuring that neither Cloudflare nor the application server has the full picture of the communication, thereby enhancing end-user privacy. It enables use cases like private telemetry collection, secure healthcare reporting, and privacy-preserving DNS resolution. The post details the architecture (Client, Privacy Gateway, Application Server), data flow, and the concepts of request privacy and client privacy, along with server integration requirements.

Read the original post ↗