RandomDNS – aims to improve the security, privacy and anonymity of DNSCrypt
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Re: RandomDNS – aims to improve the security, privacy and anonymity of DNSCrypt
#2"RandomDNS aims to improve the security, privacy and anonymity of DNSCrypt."
"It can randomize the server choice at runtime and can rotate it frequently."
Re privacy, randomizing the server choice reduces privacy. It means they all end up with your DNS queries instead of just one of them. This is exactly why Tor has entry guards.
I can't see any evidence of this application increasing security or "anonymity" either.
Re: RandomDNS – aims to improve the security, privacy and anonymity of DNSCrypt
#3"RandomDNS aims to improve the security, privacy and anonymity of DNSCrypt." "It can randomize the server choice at runtime and can rotate it frequently." Re privacy, randomizing the server choice reduces privacy. It means they all end up with your DNS queries instead of just one of them. This is exactly why Tor has entry guards. I can't see any evidence of this application increasing security or "anonymity" either.
What about a system that uses a different server for each separate lookup?
Re: RandomDNS – aims to improve the security, privacy and anonymity of DNSCrypt
#4If only people stopped writing this stuff in javascript.
Re: RandomDNS – aims to improve the security, privacy and anonymity of DNSCrypt
#5"RandomDNS aims to improve the security, privacy and anonymity of DNSCrypt." "It can randomize the server choice at runtime and can rotate it frequently." Re privacy, randomizing the server choice reduces privacy. It means they all end up with your DNS queries instead of just one of them. This is exactly why Tor has entry guards. I can't see any evidence of this application increasing security or "anonymity" either.
What about a system that uses a different server for each separate lookup?
Still less preferable to just using one server
Re: RandomDNS – aims to improve the security, privacy and anonymity of DNSCrypt
#6If only people stopped writing this stuff in javascript.
I agree. It seems like a maintainability issue. I can't imagine anyone familiar enough with DNS to contribute has experience working with Node.
Maybe I'm wrong...
Re: RandomDNS – aims to improve the security, privacy and anonymity of DNSCrypt
#7If only people stopped writing this stuff in javascript.
I agree. It seems like a maintainability issue. I can't imagine anyone familiar enough with DNS to contribute has experience working with Node. Maybe I'm wrong...
While I agree with the "why!? Node" sentiment of parent, you'd be wrong with this extension. Myself as well as a few friends (who have extensive history with DNS at both a sysadmin and developer level) disprove the theory that there's no overlap in the two skill sets.
Re: RandomDNS – aims to improve the security, privacy and anonymity of DNSCrypt
#8If only people stopped writing this stuff in javascript.
At least it's not written in Coffeescript and then further insulting you by calling it a JavaScript project despite being written in Coffeescript.
I've been foolish enough to have been quoted as saying "you can use JavaScript anywhere!" in the past (admittedly at the time, I was working on an embedded platform for TVs where apps were written in JS). Sadly it seems not everyone knows, just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Re: RandomDNS – aims to improve the security, privacy and anonymity of DNSCrypt
#9If only people stopped writing this stuff in javascript.
yes. please stop the endless javascripting of the world..
Re: RandomDNS – aims to improve the security, privacy and anonymity of DNSCrypt
#10My assumption was that this service would provide random responses to look ups.