CloudFlare Unveils Keyless SSL for Security in the Cloud

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Up until now, banking Web sites and other high-security Relevant Products/Services online services looking to prevent hacking attacks have had to make sure their in-house IT infrastructure Relevant Products/Services was up to the task. But CloudFlare, which provides speeded-up access to Web sites through the cloud Relevant Products/Services, has come out with an alternative solution: Keyless SSL that keeps sites secure Relevant Products/Services without the need for organizations to share their private SSL keys with third-party service providers.

"Private clouds are an oxymoron," CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince said in a blog post on his company’s site Thursday. With Keyless SSL, however, he said organizations can take advantage of the cloud’s flexibility "without having to turn over their most guarded secrets: their private SSL keys."…


SSL keys are cryptographic keys used to authenticate the identity of someone communicating with another party online. They enable data Relevant Products/Services exchanged between the parties to be encrypted before sending and decrypted upon receipt so communications can be handled securely. Because they don’t want to share their private SSL keys with third parties, privacy-minded businesses like banks have had to provide this level of security using their own in-house hardware and software. This makes it harder to scale up network Relevant Products/Services services in times of high demand, something that cloud-based services are designed to do…

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