Welcome to Crypto Week
Sep 17, 2018Nick Sullivan
Summary
This post announces Cloudflare's participation in 'Crypto Week,' highlighting new technologies that use cryptography to improve the Internet. It details announcements for Day 1 (IPFS Gateway), Day 2 (DNSSEC adoption), Day 3 (RPKI for BGP routing), Day 4 (Onion Service), and Day 5 (Roughtime). The post explains the fundamental trust issues on the Internet and how cryptography (hashes and digital signatures) can address them, specifically in routing, DNS, and HTTPS. It introduces RPKI for routing security and DNSSEC for trusted DNS resolution.
More from the DNS Infrastructure & Naming Conventions trail
- The keys to the Internet change on October 11, 2026. Are you ready?
- 1.1.1.1 now supports post-quantum DNSSEC, all 2,420 bytes of it
- How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
- BGP ORIGIN attribute manipulation and its impact on the Internet
- Cloudflare Internal DNS is now generally available