How To Secure DNS with DNSCrypt | Linux Today

How To Secure DNS with DNSCrypt

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 21, 2012

“DNSCrypt is an open source DNS encryption client program
offered by OpenDNS, a third-party DNS provider, to prevent DNS
snooping, spoofing, and other man-in-the-middle attacks. It does
this by completely encrypting the DNS traffic to and from a user’s
computer and the OpenDNS servers. The encryption wraps itself
around the DNS traffic much like SSL wraps itself around HTTP
traffic, though DNSCrypt is using another form of encryption: a
type of elliptic-curve cryptography, called Curve25519.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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