Microsoft will allow DNS over HTTPS directly in Windows 10 to improve privacy in our browsing
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A piece of news that surprises us this morning. Microsoft will allow DNS over HTTPS (DNS-over-HTTPS) directly in Windows 10, an improvement that is not new, since Google already did the same with Chrome a few months ago. But this movement at Microsoft is indeed an important step.
An improvement that will facilitate is that users obtain greater privacy when browsing the net since thanks to this system would encrypt DNS connections and hide them in common HTTPS traffic.An obstacle for service providers to access our browsing and the websites we visit.
Our safe navigation
Before continuing, we must clarify what DNS over HTTPS consists of. A DNS or DNS are responsible for converting the URLs that we enter in text in our browser to IP addresses on the Internet. An exchange that is carried out by means of plain text, so that an operator can know our history of visited pages. Now, with this system, DNS requests and responses will be communicated through encrypted connections.
With the change to DNS-over-HTTPS, based on the RFC 8484 standard, user privacy is improved, reducing the threats of man-in- the-middle In addition, and incidentally, browsing is optimized by reducing latency with encrypted traffic through HTTPS.
The new protocol, which can be embedded directly into applications, allowing each application or in this case the operating system, Windows 10, to use its own DNS It will be much more difficult for service providers to know our navigation as they are based on DNS over TCP.
This system is similar to the one used by Cloudflare, with its DNS 1.1.1.1, Chrome or Firefox and will allow you to change the DNS on your computer and not on the router, let's keep our browsing history safe.
It will be necessary to see what the operators, the ISPs and partly the organizations that have competences in this panorama think of this measure, because they are running out of the possibility of managing and control traffic on our network.
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