Welcome to Crypto Week 2019

Cloudflare is hosting Crypto Week 2019 to announce new projects and services that use modern cryptography to build a more secure, trustworthy Internet. The week will feature daily announcements of these initiatives, all of which are free and immediately useful. This includes the League of Entropy, securing certificate issuance using multipath domain control validation, Cloudflare's Ethereum gateway, improving their IPFS gateway, advancing towards post-quantum cryptography in TLS, introducing CIRCL: an advanced cryptographic library, and launching time.cloudflare.com. The Internet of the Future is discussed, highlighting how many pieces of the Internet were designed with different assumptions than today's reality. Constant improvement is not a given, as there are strong incentives to weaken the Internet on a fundamental level by governments, businesses, and financial institutions. Real change requires commitment from all invested parties. Ongoing upgrades to the Internet include routing security, DNS security, and improvements in TLS. The adoption of these technologies is driven by factors such as performance benefits and increased user trust. Researchers are also exploring new ways to distribute trust among multiple time servers while maintaining precision. Cloudflare's global network can help kickstart a flywheel effect for the distributed web, which uses exotic new algorithms and protocols on top of existing Internet infrastructure.