Securing DNS Traffic: An Introduction to DoT & DoH

In recent times, operating systems including Windows and macOS have been adding support for encrypted DNS. But how do the involved protocols work? And what are their benefits? To understand them, we first have to look at the Domain Name System (DNS) itself, which is one of the fundamental backbones of the Internet. However, DNS alone does not provide any encryption or authentication, which makes DNS communication vulnerable to eavesdropping and in-transit modifications. Adversaries can use DNS information in cache … Securing DNS Traffic: An Introduction to DoT & DoH weiterlesen