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Mozilla Testing DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox

posted by mrpg on Saturday December 01 2018, @05:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the dnss dept.

upstart writes:

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Mozilla Testing DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox | SecurityWeek.Com

Mozilla is moving forward with yet another project designed to provide users with increased security: it is now testing DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox stable.

Only a small group of users will enjoy the feature for now, as it is still in the testing phase, but Mozilla is determined to work with industry players for a larger rollout. When that will happen, however, remains to be seen.

Mozilla has been already testing DoH in its browser, looking into the time it takes to get a response from Cloudflare’s DoH resolver. With the test results positive, revealing great performance improvements even for the slowest users, the Internet organization has decided to move forward with its plans. 

“A recent test in our Beta channel confirmed that DoH is fast and isn’t causing problems for our users. However, those tests only measure the DNS operation itself, which isn’t the whole story,” Mozilla’s Selena Deckelmann explains. 

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday December 01 2018, @07:33AM (3 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday December 01 2018, @07:33AM (#768575) Homepage Journal

    Caltech's "Project Mathematics" proprietors remain blissfully unaware that - perhaps due to its "Emeritus" Professor Of Mathematics as well as my own Frosh and 2/3rds Sophomore Calc Instructor Tom "Tommy" Apostol having graduated from Emeritus to Pushing Up The Daisies - 17 g0t h4x0r3d by 7h3 5c3n3.

    Don't Click This Link.

    You Have Been Warned

    Don't Say I Didn't Warn You.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by shortscreen on Saturday December 01 2018, @09:03AM

    by shortscreen (2252) on Saturday December 01 2018, @09:03AM (#768584) Journal

    You made it sound like something special, but all I got from that link was the usual "unable to establish secure connection"

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 01 2018, @11:11AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 01 2018, @11:11AM (#768600)

    Forgot your pills today? WTF are you posting?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 01 2018, @02:20PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 01 2018, @02:20PM (#768620)

      That, and he is nerd sniping. Basically 'hey look someone setup something wrong holy hell they did not understand what they were doing at all! How dare they contaminate the internet with their trash'.

      Maybe a better way would be to tell them their site has been hacked?