Beyond IP addresses: Cryptographic primitives for honest bots
Presented by: Thibault Meunier
Originally aired on October 24 @ 6:30 AM - 7:00 AM EDT
With the rise in traffic from AI agents, it’s no longer clear what’s considered a bot. There are some clearly malicious bots, like ones that DoS your site, and ones that you want, like search engine crawlers. In this session, the Cloudflare research team explains how we are building cryptographic primitives that move automated clients’ legitimacy away from IP addresses and User-Agent rules. Hear about Web Bot Auth and privacy-preserving approaches, why these systems matter as agents multiply across the Internet, and how they can protect origins without weakening users’ privacy. Learn where the proposals stand today, how companies are adopting them, and how website and agent operators can use Cloudflare to prepare.
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