At last week's meeting in Seoul the IETF began testing a new DNS Privacy Daemon know as Stubby. DNS data is public and can reveal a lot about users activity and metadata leakage is a big concern. The idea is to "provide a resolver that can accept connections and return responses over Transport Layer Security (TLS) at the user-side." Stubby is designed to encrypt the data from individual DNS transactions and represents a small but significant step in protecting users.
Read more about Stubby here
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