DNS Traffic Encryption Feature Coming to Android

Google engineers are testing a new feature for the Android operating system designed to encrypt DNS queries and prevent traffic interception at the network level. This functionality, called DNS over TLS, is an experimental protocol that encrypts DNS traffic in a way similar to how HTTPS secures web traffic.

The main goal of DNS over TLS is to hide the DNS queries made by users. From a privacy standpoint, this is quite important, because even when using HTTPS, an attacker can intercept DNS requests and find out which websites a user is visiting.

Currently, it is unclear whether support for this feature has already been added to Android or if DNS over TLS will appear in an upcoming update. However, the presence of enable/disable options suggests that Google is taking the testing of this feature seriously.