IETF plants privacy test inside DNS

  • 22 November 2016
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'Stubby' aims to protect your metadata from snoopers

 
         


 
                       The problem, as stated by the ACLU's Daniel Kahn Gillmor at IETF 97
                   
                                    
 
22 Nov 2016 at 05:59, Richard Chirgwin
 
The Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF's) years-long effort to protect Internet users has taken a small step forward, with one option for better Domain Name System (DNS) privacy reaching the test stage.
 
"Stubby", created by software developer and DNS privacy advocate Sara Dickinson, lets users test encrypted DNS queries.
The idea isn't to flick the switch to encryption in one big hit, but rather, to provide a resolver that can accept connections and return responses over Transport Layer Security (TLS) at the user-side.
 
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Its good to see the good guys are taking the bull by the horns and finding a way to protect the user.

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