DNS over HTTPS in Firefox

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from LWN.net on 2018-06-01 15:21 (#3REBW)

The Mozilla blog has anarticle describing the addition of DNS over HTTPS (DoH) as an optionalfeature in the Firefox browser. "DoH support has been added toFirefox 62 to improve the way Firefox interacts with DNS. DoH usesencrypted networking to obtain DNS information from a server that isconfigured within Firefox. This means that DNS requests sent to the DoHcloud server are encrypted while old style DNS requests are notprotected." The configured server is hosted by Cloudflare, whichhas posted thisprivacy agreement about the service.

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