Cloudflare, let’s be honest, is an incredibly generous organization, offering a range of services that we rarely have to pay for. Individuals, families, small or medium-sized businesses can use their technology without having to spend money unless they need to.
Among the range of services, DNS servers (1.1.1.1) and DNS encryption service deserve recognition. In combination with their software available on a range of platforms, not only can we speed up our internet surfing, but we can also increase our security.
OpenWrt on the other hand is an incredible software designed to increase the security of our network device, which is the router, and also adds the ability to expand the capabilities of our hardware.
By combining Cloudflare with OpenWrt software and an additional software package, we can introduce Secure DNS to our network, which I wrote about some time ago.
Moreover, when we need to access our local network resources from anywhere in the world, we can use the Cloudflare Zero Trust service by creating a secure tunnel.
Zero Trust, offered as part of our Cloudflare account (and in the free version), is not just a “VPN” tunnel. Zero Trust also offers a number of other options. One of them is the ability to create “your own” secure DNS server.
You are probably aware that it is very important that the website you visit, especially the one where you enter any data (including login and password) is secured with a so-called green padlock, i.e. served by https:// before the name of the website.