[Replicant] DNSCrypt on Replicant?

John replicantor at riseup.net
Sun Dec 18 08:59:28 UTC 2022


On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 01:32:17 +0100 Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:

> The usual way to do things like that is to look if there are already
> free software applications to do things like that.

I have done that already. IIUC, dnscrypt-proxy is free software:

https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/blob/master/LICENSE#start-of-content

> Otherwise it would require to port dnscrypt-proxy to Android which is
> probably not that hard, but once done it would probably require to
> integrate it with Android, and that looks harder to do.

My research shows that it is possible to run dnscrypt-proxy on Android:

https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/discussions/1784#discussioncomment-1061152

https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/discussions/1785#start-of-content

https://github.com/dnscrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/installation#start-of-content

https://github.com/quindecim/dnscrypt-proxy-android#start-of-content

What caught my attention:

The last link is not quite popular (only 40 stars). That's why I wonder
how much this free software has been verified by the community. IOW, I
have a concern about security and I don't know how to be sure of that.

Back to the discussion in the main dnscrypt-proxy project, the only
mention of Android version is in this reply:

https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/discussions/1785#discussioncomment-1027263

It talks about LOS 7.1.2. It is not clear how compatible all that is
with Replicant 6.

I am not a developer and before following blindly instructions not
specifically for Replicant, I am looking for help with how to do all
this correctly, considering the specifics of Replicant.


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