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claire

A Cloudflare WebExtension

2Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
98GitHub stars
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What it is

A Cloudflare WebExtension

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-08-06 20:23:59 UTC to 2019-03-18 22:30:53 UTC.

0122018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 20182018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsNov 20182018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsMar 2019

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Aug 20182018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20182018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20182018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20182018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20182018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20192019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20192019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

3 sources
> "Cloudflare should really message if this is the case when using their gateway. Small UI changes to note this would likely go a long way toward coercing better overall security." I've always hoped that Cloudflare would add a HTTP header indicating the backend encryption status. I filed this issue back in 2015: https://github.com/cloudflare/claire/issues/17 In fact, Nick Sullivan, the Head of Cryptography at Cloudflare, stated a few years ago: "CloudFlare would be very happy to be able to indicate to the user the nature of how data is encrypted beyond the IP you are connecting to. Unfortunately there is no way to do that yet in modern browsers. Soon we will be sending an additional header down to the browser to indicate if a site is using strict SSL, it will be up to the browser to display it." However, as far as I can tell, this has not
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In New Tools for Detecting HTTPS Interception
> "untargeted national snooping" While I do not disagree with your sentiment, there have been cases of untargeted national snooping/censorship affecting sites with flexible SSL because governments can and often do sit between the local Cloudflare server and the origin. https://medium.com/@karthikb351/airtel-is-sniffing-and-censo... I've also been hoping that Cloudflare would add a header indicating the backend encryption status, so that we can look at how sites are configured and whether any "important" sites are using flexible SSL: https://github.com/cloudflare/claire/issues/17
In New Tools for Detecting HTTPS Interception

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