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Re: This DNS over HTTP thing


From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 10:08:45 +0200

On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 09:55:54AM +0200,
 Jeroen Massar <jeroen () massar ch> wrote 
 a message of 26 lines which said:

(Because this canary domain contradicts DoH's goals, by allowing
the very party you don't trust to remotely disable security.)

The goal is centralization of DNS

Hmmm, no, read RFC 8484 (section 1).

While the 'connection to the recursor' is 'encrypted', the recursor
is still in clear text... one just moves who can see what you are
doing with this.

As with any cryptographic protocol. Same thing with VPNs, SSH and
whatever: the remote end can see what you do. What's your point?


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