Update,

We were able to get DNSCrypt working, and works quite well, IMHO.  I personally 
have it enabled on my main AstLinux box.

If you want to check it out on a test box, either build your own image or use 
the SVN builds on build.astlinux.org, the standard builds are already there.

AstLinux Doc Info: DNSCrypt Proxy Server
http://doc.astlinux.org/userdoc:tt_dnscrypt_proxy

Lonnie


On Feb 5, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:

> Please comment,
> 
> Is there any interest in AstLinux supporting DNSCrypt ?
> 
> As you may or may not know, DNSCrypt offers encrypted privacy for DNS, while 
> DNSSEC provides zone authentication.  Complimentary, each solving different 
> issues.
> 
> More Info:
> --
> DNSCrypt | OpenDNS
> http://www.opendns.com/about/innovations/dnscrypt/
> 
> DNSCrypt
> http://dnscrypt.org/
> --
> 
> At this point we are just looking into it, the dnscrypt-proxy 1.3.3 and 
> libsodium 0.4.5 packages would need to be added to our Buildroot which could 
> be a problem until it is tried.
> 
> Would you use DNSCrypt ?  Do we / customers really care ?
> 
> Is DNSCrypt the longterm standard for encrypted privacy for DNS ?
> 
> This is mostly an OpenDNS thing now, though a few other DNS prividers around 
> the world also support DNSCrypt.
> 
> The dnscrypt-proxy package seems fairly lightweight, implementation would be 
> a simple checkbox and automatically configuring dnsmasq to use the defined 
> static DNS entries directly or via dnscrypt-proxy listening on 127.0.0.2 .
> 
> Thanks for any feedback.
> 
> Lonnie


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