Cloudflare OHTTP gateway

(blog.cloudflare.com)

51 points | by est 3 hours ago

6 comments

  • dzink 2 hours ago
    The irony is that the majority of people that need this don’t have the cognitive time or skill to process and set it up for themselves. But the agents and bad actors like North Korean hackers would absolutely have the time and ability to implement and use it. Then you have the market for lemons problem - if requests coming from here are malicious most requests coming from here will be seen as malicious. Aka dark alleys earn their reputation over time.
    • est 22 minutes ago
      I thought ohttp is opt-in. You have to participate their beta to enable the relay/gateway.

      Same applies to Apple's Private Cloud Compute. A service provider has to join the program to avoid reading visitor's source IP.

      It will handicap service provider's capability if I am not mistaken.

    • roozbeh18 1 hour ago
      We have Cloudflare Tunnels to thank for this. I wish Cloudflare did more to stop malicious use of Cloudflare Tunnels.
    • adlotsof 2 hours ago
      Not sure how north korean hackers benefit from not knowing who is accessing their servers?
    • therein 1 hour ago
      I think you misunderstand. This is for inbound traffic, not outbound.
  • ranger_danger 1 hour ago
    Does any current proxy/tunnel/VPN software support OHTTP as a transport method?

    What about browsers making general website requests to services that support it?

  • 42droids 2 hours ago
    Next step: ClInternet: the World Wide Web by Cloudflare. :)
    • chairmansteve 2 hours ago
      "Jesters do oft prove prophets".

      - King Lear

  • Naru41 2 hours ago
    Pathetically, people probably won't even erase cookie, let alone JavaScript. To begin with, any websites are not designed to be viewable without js. There are countless ways to find fingerprints. It is impossible to prevent tracking anyway in current the internet.
  • wferrell 1 hour ago
    Self Service Relay https://oblivious.network/