August 4, 2013

DNSCrypt on Ubuntu


After setting up a shared wireless connection, I started to be worried about the "plainness" of the transmissions, that everything which would go through the air and the router could be simply read by another received and use that information to another purpose. Of course, there is the always reliable TOR network, but due to a quite high latency already increased, then I decided to skip it. Nonetheless, I still wanted something running on every request and that would increase a little the privacy, then I found DNSCryopt. In other words:
DNSCrypt encrypts all DNS traffic between your computer and the OpenDNS servers (so you'll be using OpenDNS) and can protect you from man-in-the-middle attacks, spying, resolver impersonation, can prevent Internet service providers from blocking various websites and more.