DNSCrypt provides protection when obtaining an IP address so any connection using a URL can be made.
Trusteer Rapport protects the connection to your bank once it is established. (Emphasis added)
That sounds like DNSC is a necessary adjunct to TR to protect you from point A to B before TR protects you from B to C?
Trusteer's protection is focused like a laser beam. Trusteer protection is purchased from IBM by the financial institution and each has its own specific (unique?) version of Trusteer. As far as I know that version supports only the one bank and cannot protect transactions with other banks or financial institutions. To the best of my knowledge, there is no provision to have multiple versions of Trusteer on the same computer. (Emphasis added)
That all would be curiously limiting!
(*)This thread has now converged with
(Some of Trusteer's functionality actually is [was, anyhow] available for non-client banks, but I was never certain of its precise nature or usefulness.)
That is interesting because as I understand it Trusteer Rapport is dependent on software running on both ends of the connection. Otherwise why would any bank pay for the service?
and I think the appropriate place to address the two is here. (I'll cross-reference.)
Note: I trashed Rapport months ago because it was slowing Safari 5.1.10 down to a crawl, and there's no longer a Snowy compatible version available, so I'm working from memory. Further, I don't deal with any of Rapport's client financial institutions, so that part of its functionality is outside of my experience.
Rapport offered to protect my connections to (non-client) Chase Bank, Vanguard, and PayPal, but NOT with
all of its options; the available ones can be found with a bit of digging in its pref pane. (
[Edited] I recall declining protection on eBay and, I think, all other https websites].)
When I got to the login pages for those sites I clicked on the Rapport icon and was offered some sort of password entry protection that I accepted.
My acceptance generated generic entries for the sites at the bottom of Rapport's ridiculously long (not to mention ridiculously long-loading) client list in its pref pane, and they also appeared as options under at least two of its pref items, one of which was password protection.
(*)Seemingly contrary to what you've said, though, I remember Rapport's pref pane offering many protections for (something like) "member institutions" (maybe even "all"), which, working blind, of course, I took to mean not just the particular one identified prior to download, but all those on the client list with which a user dealt. (If you've never been there, good luck in Rapport's pref pane; unless they've given it a serious workover, it's a nightmare!)
Edit: As I've intimated, it is
not necessary to identify a client institution prior to downloading Rapport, so at least some non-member protection is impliedly available.