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Apple adds support for encrypted DNS (DoH and DoT)

18 pointsby afrcncalmost 5 years ago

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AnonCalmost 5 years ago
&gt; Apple says developers can create apps to apply DoH&#x2F;DoT settings for the entire operating system (via network extension apps or MDM profiles), to individual apps, or to an app&#x27;s selected network requests.<p>This sounds like a direct support and expansion of what was already possible system wide via &quot;VPN&quot; apps like the free DNS Cloak app which allows you to choose any resolver (with or without DoH&#x2F;DoT).<p>&gt; &quot;There are two ways in which encrypted DNS can be enabled,&quot; Tommy Pauly, Internet Technologies Engineer at Apple, said in a talk on Wednesday.<p>&gt; ...<p>&gt; &quot;The second way to enable encrypted DNS is to opt-in directly from an app. If you want your app to use encrypted DNS, even if the rest of the system isn&#x27;t yet, you can select a specific server to use for some or all of your app&#x27;s connections,&quot; Pauly added.<p><i>&gt; Furthermore, Apple&#x27;s DoH and DoT implementations will also be context-aware. For example, if a user has a VPN app installed, or is part of a captive (corporate) network, the DoH&#x2F;DoT server won&#x27;t override the DNS settings provided by the aforementioned.</i><p>Thank goodness for this. While reading this article, for a moment I thought apps could use a different DNS server even if the user had chosen something else system wide via a VPN app (Google&#x27;s direct usage of 8.8.8.8 in its applications on some platforms, bypassing the system resolver, comes to mind).