# The net/dnscrypt-proxy,-main port

## dnscrypt-proxy-1.2.0 – secure communications between a DNS client and resolver

## Description

    DNSCrypt-proxy provides local service which can be used directly
    as your local resolver or as a DNS forwarder, encrypting requests
    using the DNSCrypt protocol and passing them to an upstream server,
    by default OpenDNS who run this on their resolvers.

    DNSCrypt is a slight variation on DNSCurve.

    DNSCurve improves confidentiality and integrity of DNS requests using
    high-speed high-security elliptic-curve cryptography. Best of all,
    DNSCurve has a very low overhead and adds virtually no latency to
    queries.

    DNSCurve aims at securing the entire chain down to authoritative
    servers. But it only works with authoritative servers that explicitly
    support the protocol.

    The DNSCrypt protocol is very similar to DNSCurve, but focuses on
    securing communications between a client and its first-level resolver.
    While not providing end-to-end security, it protects the local
    network, which is often the weakest point of the chain, against
    man-in-the-middle attacks. It also provides some confidentiality to
    DNS queries.

WWW: http://dnscrypt.org

Multi-packages
  dnscrypt-proxy-1.2.0 dnscrypt-proxy-plugins-1.2.0
Categories:
  net

## Library dependencies

- devel/libexecinfo
- devel/libtool,-ltdl

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