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Internet Engineering Task Force

Open Internet standards organization

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Jan 15, 2026
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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 ...

Nov 15, 2025
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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...

Dec 3, 2025
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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...

Jan 25, 2026

What technical measures (DNS over HTTPS, DNS over TLS, encrypted SNI) reduce ISP access to DNS query logs and how widely were they adopted by 2025?

Encrypted transports for DNS—principally and DNS-over-TLS (DoT)—substantially reduce an ISP’s ability to record plain-text DNS query logs because they move the DNS query into an encrypted TLS/HTTPS ch...

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...