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Auli@twit.social 1 day ago
@early_riser they can see all of your data going over it. They terminate the connection at their end. So data collection if nothing else. And yah what are they going to collect is the same thing people said about Google.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I’m an expert at nothing, however, the following is how I understand the relationship between your origin server and Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust services. I stand by to be schooled:
If this is inaccurate, please do EILI5. I’m always down to learn.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
Pretty sure you can choose to decrypt on your own server so cloudflare doesn’t see unencrypted data ever.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Indeed you can. When a user makes a request, it is sent to Cloudflare, which then routes it to your server through the tunnel. The traffic can be encrypted while in transit to Cloudflare, ensuring that their network does not inspect or decrypt the contents. Once the encrypted traffic reaches your server, you handle decryption using your own application logic. Only your server has the keys to decrypt the data, so Cloudflare remains blind to any sensitive information.