Both encrypted extensions are of course inspectable at the end-point, which is the privacy model being discussed.
What is intriguing to me is why Cloudflare are offering this. Perhaps it is to provide data on traffic that is 'invisible' to them, as in it doesn't currently touch their networks. Possibly as a sales-lead generator.
Or is the plan to become dominant and then use DNS blackholing to shutdown malware that is a threat to their systems?
The goal is to make the sites that use Cloudflare ridiculously fast by putting the authoritative and recursive DNS on the same machine (for clients who use 1.1.1.1).
Cloudflare is already a significant enough player in handling Internet traffic. Maybe the company does want to do good for the sake of doing good, but I’m wary of companies taking over in this manner and making the Internet more like a monolith than a distributed system.
What is intriguing to me is why Cloudflare are offering this. Perhaps it is to provide data on traffic that is 'invisible' to them, as in it doesn't currently touch their networks. Possibly as a sales-lead generator.
Or is the plan to become dominant and then use DNS blackholing to shutdown malware that is a threat to their systems?