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Internet Engineering Task Force

Open Internet standards organization

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Jan 15, 2026

Which DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS providers support client IP privacy for third-party resolvers?

Encrypted DNS via DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) and DNS-over-TLS (DoT) is widely supported by major public resolvers—Cloudflare, Google, NextDNS and others—but encryption alone does not remove the client's IP ...

Dec 3, 2025

How can citizens enroll, revoke, or transfer their state digital ID credentials?

Enrollment, revocation and transfer of state digital ID credentials is handled by state DMVs and mobile wallet platforms: citizens typically enroll by scanning their physical credential and taking a s...

Nov 15, 2025

What are the trade-offs between using DoH/DoT, DNSCrypt, and a local recursive resolver for privacy?

Encrypted DNS options each trade off privacy, operational control, and standardization: DoH and DoT are standardized and widely supported but route queries to a cloud resolver (reducing local visibili...

Jan 15, 2026

How have other jurisdictions (EU, Germany, US) regulated or litigated mandatory client‑side scanning proposals and what were the outcomes?

Mandatory client‑side scanning has been fought, stalled, and reworked across jurisdictions: the EU’s “Chat Control”/CSAR proposals provoked a major political and legal backlash that forced governments...

Jan 6, 2026

Which pluggable transports are most resistant to active network probing by censors?

Pluggable transports that incorporate a secret handshake (notably obfs4/Obfsproxy family) and those that blend into widely used infrastructure (meek, Snowflake) are the best-documented defenses agains...