Security News > 2020 > May > Microsoft Adds DNS-Over-HTTPS Support for Windows 10 Insiders
Microsoft has announced the first testable version of DNS-Over-HTTPS support, available for its Windows 10 operating system.
Support for the DoH protocol, which Microsoft first announced in November, is available in the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19628.
"If you have been waiting to try DNS-Over-HTTPS on Windows 10, you're in luck: the first testable version is now available to Windows Insiders," according to Microsoft on Wednesday.
DoH support thus attempts fix a long-standing privacy issue for internet browsers: Even if users are visiting a site using the secure HTTPS channel, if their DNS query is sent over an unencrypted connection, anyone can sniff out the packets being sent.
DoH on the other hand encloses DNS requests in encrypted HTTPS packets and sends them to a DoH server, which then processes the request and sends the encrypted response back.
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https://threatpost.com/microsoft-dns-over-https-windows-10/155746/
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