Clouldflare launches DNS-over-HTTPS service called 1.1.1.1 that it says will be a “privacy-first” DNS service for consumers.
Cloudflare is hoping to boost consumer privacy, reduce the threat of man-in-the-middle attacks, and speed up the internet with a new free solution for securing domain name server traffic that uses the encrypted HTTPS channel.
On Sunday, the security focused content delivery network provider, Cloudflare, opened up a global Domain Name System (DNS) for consumers to run both DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS. The service is called 1.1.1.1. That is the IPv4 address for Cloudflare’s DNS resolver (along with 1.0.0.1).
“DNS itself is a 35-year-old protocol and it’s showing its age. It was never designed with privacy or security in mind,” wrote Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare in a blog post Sunday. “DNS inherently is unencrypted so it leaks data to anyone who’s monitoring your network connection.”
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