2018-01-10 20:17:46 +01:00
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# dnscrypt-proxy 2
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A client implementation of the DNSCrypt protocol.
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## Current status/features
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2018-01-10 22:31:44 +01:00
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| Features | dnscrypt-proxy 1.x | dnscrypt-proxy 2.x |
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| ----------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- |
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| Status | Old PoC, barely maintained any more | Very new, but quickly evolving |
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| Code quality | Big ugly mess | Readable, easy to work on |
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| Reliability | Poor, due to completely broken handling of edge cases | Excellent |
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| Security | Written in C, bundles patched versions from old branches of system libraries | Written in standard and portable Go |
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| Dependencies | Specific versions of libsodium, libldns and libtool | None |
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| Upstream connections using TCP | Catastrophic, requires client retries | Implemented as anyone would expect, works well with TOR |
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| XChaCha20 support | Only if compiled with recent versions of libsodium | Yes, always available |
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| Support of links with small MTU | Unreliable due to completely broken padding | Reliable, properly implemented |
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| Support for multiple servers | Nonexistent | Yes, with automatic failover and load-balancing |
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| Custom additions | C API, requires libldns for sanity | Simple Go structures using miekg/dns |
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| AAAA blocking for IPv4-only networks | Yes | Yes |
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| DNS caching | Yes, with ugly hacks for DNSSEC support | Yes, without ugly hacks |
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| EDNS support | Broken with custom records | Yes |
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| Asynchronous filters | Lol, no filters block everything | Of course, thanks to Go |
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| Session-local storage for extensions | Impossible | Yes |
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| Multicore support | Nonexistent | Yes, thanks to Go |
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| Efficient padding of queries | Couldn't be any worse | Yes |
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| Multiple local sockets | Impossible | Of course. IPv4, IPv6, as many as you like |
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| Automatically picks the fastest servers | Lol, it supports only one at a time, anyway | Yes, out of the box |
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| Official, always up-to-date pre-built libraries | None | Yes, for many platforms. See below. |
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## Planned features
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* New super simple (to copy&paste), extensible format for servers parameters: "stamps"
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* Automatic updates
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* Filtering with regexes
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* Offline responses
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* Local DNSSEC validation
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* Flexible logging
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* Windows support that doesn't suck
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* DNS-over-HTTP2
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* Some real documentation
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