Advancing a More Private, Encrypted Web for Everyone

Our online behavior reveals details about us, even when we think it’s protected.

While steps have been taken to secure key pieces of the internet over the last decade, the Domain Name System (DNS) – the internet’s phonebook – remained unencrypted. As a result, the domain names of sites we visit are often visible to anyone snooping on the line. That data can be used to block access to information, spread malware, and with emerging advances in AI, paint a detailed portrait of internet users.

In partnership with Google core engineering, Jigsaw created Intra – a mobile application for Android that prevents network providers and bad actors from seeing the domains people visit by routing web traffic through an encrypted connection.

Intra helped validate techniques that are now being used to provide a more secure and private connection for everyone browsing the web. The implementation of new standards through Intra helped unlock broader adoption of encryption protocols at Google, Cloudflare, Mozilla Firefox, and more organizations.

Now, more than one billion users worldwide are better protected with advanced encryption.

With significant progress made in DNS privacy, Jigsaw is continuing the effort to close long-standing privacy gaps by advancing the Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) standard with others.