Authenticated Origin Pulls
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Cloudflare feature that verifies requests from Cloudflare to a customer origin using mutual TLS.
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Placed in Assess: 1 article(s) of evidence from 1 source(s), led by security coverage, with 1 in the last 30 days. Confidence 24%. Low accumulated evidence, so it defaults conservatively pending more signal.
Evidence (1)
- 7Cloudflare Blog·7/29/2026securityCloudflare adds post-quantum authentication for origin connections
Cloudflare now supports post-quantum authentication for Authenticated Origin Pulls and Custom Origin Trust Store, enabling mutually authenticated TLS connections to origin servers using ML-DSA signatures. The update extends Cloudflare’s post-quantum roadmap beyond encryption to protect origin traffic against future quantum-enabled impersonation attacks.