If we are to listen to networking and cybersecurity experts, the protocol is somewhat useless and causes more problems than it fixes, and criticism has been mounting against DoH and those promoting it ...

Openness has been one of the defining characteristics of the Internet for as long as it has existed, with much of the traffic today still passed without any form of encryption. Most requests for HTML ...

Last month, Google announced a plan to encrypt DNS — or DNS over HTTPS (DoH) — in Chrome. In the United States, this was met with criticism from Internet Service Providers for limiting monitoring ...

You might read that title and ask, “Who needs a new DNS server?” On the other hand, you also might read it and wonder, “What’s a DNS server?” There are a lot of DNS servers out there. There’s BIND, of ...

Because of its universality, DNS has become a natural enforcement layer for network policies, whether for security, ...

Google's bid to encrypt domain name requests appears to be raising hackles among American officials. The Wall Street Journal has learned that the House Judiciary Committee is investigating Google's ...

The Windows operating system will be getting support for an encrypted Domain Name System (DNS) option, Microsoft announced this week, adding greater privacy protections for Internet connections. In ...

Microsoft announced this week that the Windows operating system will have support for an encrypted Domain Name System (DNS) option that promises to add greater privacy protections for Internet ...

Mozilla is urging Congress to reject the broadband industry’s lobbying campaign against encrypted DNS in Firefox and Chrome. The Internet providers’ fight against this privacy feature raises questions ...

When you visit a new website, your computer probably submits a request to the domain name system (DNS) to translate the domain name (like arstechnica.com) to an IP address. Currently, most DNS queries ...