Universal SSL: Encryption all the way to the origin, for free
Feb 24, 2015Nick Sullivan
Summary
This post announces the public beta of Cloudflare's Origin CA service, which provides free, limited-function certificates for customer origin servers. This enables full encryption of traffic from the browser to the origin server, complementing the existing Universal SSL feature. It details the three SSL modes (Flexible, Full, Strict), explains the creation and validation process for Origin CA certificates, and provides instructions on how to create Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs) using CFSSL.
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