What is it with Cloudflare marketing posts making page 1 on a daily basis? Is there some business relationship between HN and CF?
The title of this one started off as "free" SSL. Now it is "universal SSL". C'mon. As vader1 points out, the level of potential deception here is getting a wee bit high.
CF is just a MITM. A website owner lets CF control her DNS and this allows CF to route all requests for her website through CF servers; CF stands between the website and the user.
Unless the website owner configures SSL then the user only gets an encrypted connection to CF. That's hardly "universal" SSL.
The title of this one started off as "free" SSL. Now it is "universal SSL". C'mon. As vader1 points out, the level of potential deception here is getting a wee bit high.
CF is just a MITM. A website owner lets CF control her DNS and this allows CF to route all requests for her website through CF servers; CF stands between the website and the user.
Unless the website owner configures SSL then the user only gets an encrypted connection to CF. That's hardly "universal" SSL.