[TLS] req mTLS at Cloudflare
Jonathan Hoyland <jonathan.hoyland@gmail.com> Thu, 15 May 2025 13:03 UTC
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Hi TLSWG and WebBotAuth, Cloudflare has just announced [1] some work on mixed traffic endpoints, i.e. those that accept authenticated and unauthenticated traffic. We’ve provided implementations and examples for req mTLS [2], as well as other exploratory paths such as HTTP Message Sigs [3], to enable endpoints to authenticate automated traffic without impacting eyeball traffic. If you’re an implementer, we’d love to collaborate and discuss interop testing. Regards, Jonathan [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/web-bot-auth [2] https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-jhoyla-req-mtls-flag-02.html [3] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9421
- [TLS] req mTLS at Cloudflare Jonathan Hoyland