Glossary Terms

A cryptographer and mathematician known in part for a lawsuit over cryptography export controls.

A cryptographer associated with anonymous communication, digital cash and blind signatures.

An older symmetric encryption standard that became central to debates about government influence on cryptography.

A method that lets two parties agree on a shared secret over an insecure channel.

A command-line tool for querying DNS.

Temporarily stored DNS answers so they do not have to be requested again each time.

A query where a computer asks DNS for information about a domain.

Moving data out of a system using DNS queries or responses.

A way to send DNS queries over encrypted HTTPS connections.

A way to send DNS queries over encrypted TLS connections.