Even though the protocol radically differs from HTTPS, both service types utilize the same port. Protocol ĭNSCrypt can be used either over UDP or over TCP. Other servers that support secure protocol are mentioned in the DNSCrypt creators’ list.

On 10 September 2018, the Quad9 nonprofit public recursive resolver service announced support for DNSCrypt.

On 14 October 2016, AdGuard added DNSCrypt to their DNS filtering module so that users could move from their ISPs to custom or AdGuard's own DNS servers for online privacy and ad blocking. On 29 March 2016, Yandex announced support for the DNSCrypt protocol on their public DNS servers, as well as in Yandex Browser. OpenDNS (now a part of Cisco) announced the first public DNS service supporting DNSCrypt on 6 December 2011, shortly followed by CloudNS Australia. In addition to private deployments, the DNSCrypt protocol has been adopted by several public DNS resolvers, the vast majority being members of the OpenNIC network, as well as virtual private network (VPN) services. Dnscrypt-proxy, a DNSCrypt client running on Linux

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