Security News > 2020 > May > Microsoft joins encrypted DNS club with Windows 10 option
Microsoft is the latest browser vendor to join the encrypted DNS club by supporting DNS over HTTPS in Windows 10.
We've explained encrypted DNS before, but briefly, it encrypts DNS queries between your computer and the DNS resolver so those in between can't see which websites or other URLs you're asking for.
Encrypted DNS is better in some ways than the existing DNS, which operates in plain text, but as some Naked Security readers have pointed out, it still has some gotchas.
Your DoH-enabled DNS resolver might well have its own filtering, but that means you're trusting it with just about everything, and makes it difficult to introduce multi-layered DNS filtering protection.
When it first announced its plans to introduce DoH in November, Microsoft said that "Supporting encrypted DNS queries in Windows will close one of the last remaining plain-text domain name transmissions in common web traffic."
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