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It's great they support it, but how many people have DNSCurve enabled authoritative nameservers? And how many OpenDNS cache users are routing their queries through a DNSCurve forwarder?

It's the same as with DNSSEC. To get the full benefit, every point in the chain needs to be on board, from the source to the sink. If any link in the chain doesn't support it, you're SOL.

If you read Dempsky's announcement carefully, you notice the words "whenever possible". That could be almost never depending on DNSCurve uptake among DNS admins and users.

An easier solution is to just run your own instance of dnscache.

That's what OpenDNS uses.