- notes
- {"status": "Acquired; operating company dissolved as standalone vendor", "acquirer": "Cloudflare (CloudFlare at time of announcement)", "announced_date": "2014-06-18", "acquisition_terms_disclosed": false, "service_shutdown_date": "2014-06-30", "acquirer_rationale": "Trusted Computing on commodity servers, VPN/forward-proxy technology, key management; acqui-hire of Ryan Lackey", "post_acquisition_roles": [{"person": "Ryan Lackey", "role": "Product manager focused on new security products (later Product Engineer at Cloudflare)", "source_urls": ["https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-acquires-cryptoseal/", "https://www.pcworld.com/article/439909/cloudflare-acquires-enterprise-vpn-provider-cryptoseal.html", "https://linkedin.com/in/ryanlackey"]}], "technology_integration": "Trusted Computing, cryptography, secure networks intended for Cloudflare edge security products (e.g., later Keyless SSL per Ryan Lackey LinkedIn)", "source_urls": ["https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-acquires-cryptoseal/", "https://www.pcworld.com/article/439909/cloudflare-acquires-enterprise-vpn-provider-cryptoseal.html", "https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloudflare-acquires-vpn-service-cryptoseal-shuts-it-down/", "https://www.theregister.com/security/2014/06/19/cloudflare-slurps-cryptoseal/538533", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/cryptoseal"]}
- source urls
- ["https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-acquires-cryptoseal/", "https://www.pcworld.com/article/439909/cloudflare-acquires-enterprise-vpn-provider-cryptoseal.html", "https://www.theregister.com/security/2014/06/19/cloudflare-slurps-cryptoseal/538533", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/cryptoseal", "https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloudflare-acquires-vpn-service-cryptoseal-shuts-it-down/"]