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 introduced Varnish Total Encryption as a security countermeasure for cache leaks. Varnish Total Encryption is used to encrypt caches in a way that 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 explained 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 a secured cloud transport.

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