Cloudflare has announced its intent to become a public certificate authority (CA), an open service that issues the digital certificates websites need to encrypt traffic and prove their identity to visitors. The announcement, reported by both Dark Reading and HPCwire, was made on Sept. 29, 2026.
The two accounts agree on the central news: Cloudflare is positioning the CA for a post-quantum web. Dark Reading describes automated certificates for everyone, built for today and hardened for the era of quantum computing. HPCwire notes that the company announced its intent to become a public CA and describes the service as open.
The reports do not contradict each other, but they lead with different framing. Dark Reading puts the emphasis on universal, automated certificates, while HPCwire puts it on Cloudflare's stated intent and the openness of the service.