Meet ODoH, where privacy means just not knowing anything
Being oblivious on the internet usually isn’t a recipe for protecting privacy. But Cloudflare announced Tuesday that it was launching support for a protocol that makes obliviousness its chief trait. Developed in conjunction with engineers from Apple and Fastly, it’s called Oblivious DNS over HTTPS, or ODoH for short. It’s a newly proposed Domain Name System standard that Cloudflare, an internet services and cybersecurity provider, says separates IP addresses from queries, which means no one entity can see both simultaneously. ODoH is one of three privacy initiatives Cloudflare hailed on Tuesday, with the other two meant to improve password security and halt metadata leaks. “Fundamentally what we’re trying to do with these announcements is to help point out places on the internet — or aspects of how the internet is built — that have a privacy hole, or an issue that make it easier to have their privacy compromised in […]
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