veerendra2/searx-with-dnscrypt

Searx metadata search engine meets dnscrypt in Docker

Searx with dnscrypt in Docker

This repository is meant to build the base image for a searx-with-dnscrypt container.

Repo website - https://veerendra2.github.io/searx-with-dnscrypt/

What the heck is Searx?

Searx is a free metasearch engine with the aim of protecting the privacy of its users.To this end, Searx does not share users' IP addresses or search history with the search engines it gathers results from. Tracking cookies served by the search engines are blocked, preventing user-profiling-based results modification. By default, Searx queries are submitted via HTTP POST, to prevent users' query keywords from appearing in webserver logs. Searx was inspired by the Seeks project, though it does not implement Seeks' peer-to-peer user-sourced results ranking.continue on wikipedia

• Offical repo - https://github.com/asciimoo/searx
• Documentation - https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki
• Website - https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/
• Searx search engine site - https://www.searx.me/

What the heck is dnscrypt?

DNSCrypt is a protocol that authenticates communications between a DNS client and a DNS resolver. It prevents DNS snooping. It uses cryptographic signatures to verify that responses originate from the chosen DNS resolver and haven't been tampered with.https://dnscrypt.org/

• Offical repo - https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy
• Documentation - https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki
• Website - https://dnscrypt.org/

Why the heck I combined those two?

Just for fun and provide better anommous internet surfing. All your DNS queries "from" Searx container is encrypted which prevents DNS snooping + Provides basic privacy by mixing your queries with searches on other platforms without storing search data

• What it can't do

  Your DNS queries won't encrypt if you directly type the URL of website(To do that, check here). Since the dnscrypt-proxy is only in this container, it can encrypts DNS queries of the links in results which you click.

Run it

sudo docker run -d --name searx-dnscrypt -p 8888:8888 --dns=127.0.0.1 --restart always veerendrav2/searx-with-dnscrypt

• --dns=127.0.0.1 - Because dnscrypt binds on loopback address
• --restart always - Docker engine starts the container whenever machine boots
• You can access Searx at http://127.0.0.1:8888

NOTE

• Normal DNS servers(for e.g. Google's 8.8.8.8) won't support Dnscrypt. So there are some list of server that supports Dnscrypt protocol which you can get here.
• In this Dockerfile I used soltysiak which supports NO LOG policy and DNSSEC(Authentication)
• To configure dnscrypt in your machine, check intructions here

Courtesy: This is repository is base on wonderfall/searx.