Comparing the Effects of DNS, DoT, and DoH on Web Performance

Austin Hounsel; Kevin Borgolte; Paul Schmitt; Jordan Holland; N. Feamster

DOI:10.1145/3366423.3380139

Corpus ID: 211133168

Comparing the Effects of DNS, DoT, and DoH on Web Performance

@article{Hounsel2020ComparingTE,
  title={Comparing the Effects of DNS, DoT, and DoH on Web Performance},
  author={Austin Hounsel and Kevin Borgolte and Paul Schmitt and Jordan Holland and N. Feamster},
  journal={Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020},
  year={2020}
}

Austin Hounsel, Kevin Borgolte, +2 authors N. Feamster

Published 2020

Computer Science

Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020

Nearly every service on the Internet relies on the Domain Name System (DNS), which translates a human-readable name to an IP address before two endpoints can communicate. Today, DNS traffic is unencrypted, leaving users vulnerable to eavesdropping and tampering. Past work has demonstrated that DNS queries can reveal a user’s browsing history and even what smart devices they are using at home. In response to these privacy concerns, two new protocols have been proposed: DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) and… CONTINUE READING

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