How are so many sites OK with using cloudflare when they are basically a MITM? - eviltoast

Regardless of whether or not you provide your own SSL certificates, cloudflare still uses their own between their servers and client browsers. So any SSL encrypted traffic is unencrypted at their end before being re-encrypted with your certificate. How can such an entity be trusted?

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    1 year ago

    Even if the data is passing through cloudflare cdn uses the cloudflare certificates my data is encrypted first using my own certificates from the Proxyserver

    This is false, connect to your website, check the certificate, it will be Cloudlfare’s. I assume either you have not checked, or are a Business customer paying quite some money yearly to Cloudflare.

    Cloudflare decrypts inbound traffic, then re-encrypts it before sending it to you, unless you pay a decent amount of money so that they serve your certificate.