[dns-operations] Introducing DNSCrypt

Dobbins, Roland rdobbins at arbor.net
Wed Dec 7 01:35:29 UTC 2011


On Dec 6, 2011, at 10:17 PM, David Ulevitch wrote:

> The goal of DNSCrypt is to provide encryption of all DNS traffic between stubs and resolvers

There's a very large opsec downside to this - namely, the loss of visibility into botnet C&C queries and DNS DDoS traffic.

Folks who wish to encrypt their DNS queries can make use of existing encrypted VPN technologies.

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