If I remember correctly, CryptoSeal for consumers was shut down after concerns about the security/privacy of VPNs in general. Is Cloudflare in a better position to offer a secure VPN in the US? Maybe they have some better lawyers or infrastructure?
Actually yes on all of those points. CloudFlare has a pretty amazing general counsel, Ken Carter, who in addition to being a great lawyer was in a colo racking and stacking servers. He also is the point person for Project Galileo, where CloudFlare offers free service to important free speech organizations. It's also very well resourced financially.
CloudFlare has some pretty amazing infrastructure, which they've blogged about -- great peering, lots of POPs, etc.
I was working on "how to do VPNs securely post-Snowden and post-Lavabit" after shutting down the consumer VPN service, which is both a technical and legal problem; we can definitely do it at CloudFlare.
This part made me curious:
> it is about getting into the VPN business.
If I remember correctly, CryptoSeal for consumers was shut down after concerns about the security/privacy of VPNs in general. Is Cloudflare in a better position to offer a secure VPN in the US? Maybe they have some better lawyers or infrastructure?