Cloudflare AKE cuts origin HelloRetryRequests from 52% to 3.7% (blog.cloudflare.com)

10 points by iamsyr an hour ago

2 comments:

by chrismorgan 4 minutes ago

Genuine question: why wouldn’t they have been doing this already? It feels like obvious low-hanging fruit on a critical path, so I presume there’s something more to it than I’m imagining.

by lucaprata 14 minutes ago

We had a probe that checked whether a connection was using post-quantum cryptography. It looked for "Cipher is" in the output. But when the handshake failed, it would print "Cipher is (NONE)." So it reported that github.com and amazon.com were compliant. For weeks.

The success criterion was embedded in the errorline.

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