how does DNS over TLS help with privacy? please explain it to me, since the ISP can still see the IP your sending data to and getting data from and can just reverse DNS lookup that IP
With plain DNS the ISP can see that you request example.tld to 1.1.1.1
With encrypted DNS (DoT, DoH, DoQ, DNSCrypt…) the requests are encrypted with TLS or other, o only see that you connected to dns.cloudflare.com not the domain that you request, so it cannot see that you requested example.tld
ISPs can always see what domains you visit due to it being leaked in plain text via the SNI portion of the Client Hello sequence of establishing a TLS connection to a web server, whether your DNS requests are encrypted or not.
It’s important to remember that using encrypted DNS does not shield the domains names you visit from your ISP. I feel this is a fundamental misunderstanding that gives some a false sense of privacy. At best, from a privacy perspective, you might avoid DNS-based logging which are slightly more trivial to log than domain taken from SNI.
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how does DNS over TLS help with privacy? please explain it to me, since the ISP can still see the IP your sending data to and getting data from and can just reverse DNS lookup that IP
With plain DNS the ISP can see that you request example.tld to 1.1.1.1
With encrypted DNS (DoT, DoH, DoQ, DNSCrypt…) the requests are encrypted with TLS or other, o only see that you connected to dns.cloudflare.com not the domain that you request, so it cannot see that you requested example.tld
ISPs can always see what domains you visit due to it being leaked in plain text via the SNI portion of the Client Hello sequence of establishing a TLS connection to a web server, whether your DNS requests are encrypted or not.
It’s important to remember that using encrypted DNS does not shield the domains names you visit from your ISP. I feel this is a fundamental misunderstanding that gives some a false sense of privacy. At best, from a privacy perspective, you might avoid DNS-based logging which are slightly more trivial to log than domain taken from SNI.
isp can still see the ip, but it’s not as big of an issue as plain domain names (because the default dns logs requests 90% of the time).
I’m fairly certain that’s not how it works, you’re describing a VPN where your isp routes all traffic to an IP
Almost, but only for DNS https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/what-is-encrypted-dns-traffic/
You can also use DNS-over-SSH or DNS-over-TOR, only tunnels the DNS not the whole traffic