Unfortunately, DNS is still very much a legacy technology as far as modern security practices are concerned, and does not natively support encryption. Since I intend to do my best to stamp out cleartext wherever it may be, this is a problem for me. So, even if all other traffic from your computer is encrypted (for example, by routing your outbound traffic through a VPN – more on that later), you may still be “leaking” your browsing activity to others on your network. This works very well, however, it is a clear text protocol. DNS is the system which converts a human readable address, like into the IP address that the computer actually uses to route your connection through the internet, e.g.
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