On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 02:17:36AM +0000, coderman wrote:
> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/12/oblivious-dns-over-https.html
> 
> Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS
> 
> This[new 
> protocol](https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/08/cloudflare-and-apple-design-a-new-privacy-friendly-internet-protocol/),
>  called Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS (ODoH), hides the websites you visit from 
> your ISP.
> 
> > Here’s how it works: ODoH wraps a layer of encryption around the DNS query 
> > and passes it through a proxy server, which acts as a go-between the 
> > internet user and the website they want to visit. Because the DNS query is 
> > encrypted, the proxy can’t see what’s inside, but acts as a shield to 
> > prevent the DNS resolver from seeing who sent the query to begin with.
> 
> IETF[memo](https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pauly-dprive-oblivious-doh-02).
> 
> The[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.10121.pdf):
> 
> > Abstract:The Domain Name System (DNS) is the foundation of a human-usable 
> > Internet, responding to client queries for host-names with corresponding IP 
> > addresses and records. Traditional DNS is also unencrypted, and leaks user 
> > information to network operators. Recent efforts to secure DNS using DNS 
> > over TLS (DoT) and DNS over HTTPS (DoH) havebeen gaining traction, 
> > ostensibly protecting traffic and hiding content from on-lookers. However, 
> > one of the criticisms ofDoT and DoH is brought to bear by the small number 
> > of large-scale deployments (e.g., Comcast, Google, Cloudflare): DNS 
> > resolvers can associate query contents with client identities in the form 
> > of IP addresses. Oblivious DNS over HTTPS (ODoH) safeguards against this 
> > problem. In this paper we ask what it would take to make ODoH practical? We 
> > describe ODoH, a practical DNS protocol aimed at resolving this issue by 
> > both protecting the client’s content and identity. We implement and deploy 
> > the protocol, and perform measurements to show that ODoH has comparable 
> > performance to protocols like DoH and DoT which are gaining widespread 
> > adoption,while improving client privacy, making ODoH a practical privacy 
> > enhancing replacement for the usage of DNS.
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i heard it requires to attach a pubkey to the request which cloudflare uses to
encrypt to the response. 

1/ pubkey crypto expensive
2/ cloudflare can still track you based on your pubkey

it's the usual creepy cloudflare shit.

fuck cloudflare!

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