Using Varnish Total Encryption To Secure a CDN

This is a follow-up example to my introduction to Varnish Total Encryption. In that post, I introduce Varnish Total Encryption as a security countermeasure for cache leaks. Varnish Total Encryption is used to encrypt cache and works with all Varnish storage types. Total Encryption also supports streaming mode, meaning Total Encryption can be used to encrypt and decrypt any kind of HTTP traffic. I also explain that since Total Encryption is completely controlled by VCL, we can extend the ideas of Total Encryption to create larger secured architectures. In this example, we will examine how Total Encryption can use a CDN as secured cloud transport.

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1/18/18 1:00 PM
by Reza Naghibi

Edge Logic: Securing Varnish with per-user JSON data

When using a traditional CDN or caching system, creating user-centric security and access policies can be a complex and performance challenging undertaking. Not only do you have to pull user data from a backend, but you then have to apply the security policies from that data onto the request. VCL is an excellent candidate for the latter problem of applying security policies to requests. This leaves the problem of how you get user data (JSON) into VCL? How do you do that on a user-by-user basis? And how do you do that in a way where you keep backend communication to an absolute minimum, or put another way, serve as much data from cache as possible?

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10/25/17 3:00 PM
by Reza Naghibi

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