[GTALUG] DNS-over-HTTPS - what's the use?

[Alvin Starr]

On 12/23/19 10:24 AM, James Knott via talk wrote:
> On 2019-12-23 10:19 AM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
>> This will also make it harder for people who are on your wifi link to 
>> snoop on what your trying to connect to.
>> Still any security enhancement is a security enhancement and makes it 
>> harder for others to steal your information, and generally that is a 
>> good thing. 
>
> Some people have other ideas:
> https://www.zdnet.com/article/dns-over-https-causes-more-problems-than-it-solves-experts-say/ 
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Its an interesting set of issues.

 From a quick browse through the URL the complains seem to break into 2 
categories.
- it makes tracking harder
- if not properly implemented it provides no extra security.

Both things tend to be true of encryption technologies.

I am not sure I would be running out to implement DoH any time soon 
because it does not seem like a great value.



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