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Server Name Indication
TLS extension for serve multiple HTTPS sites at the same IP address with different certificates

Server Name Indication (SNI) is an extension to the Transport Layer Security (TLS) computer networking protocol by which a client indicates which hostname it is attempting to connect to at the start of the handshaking process. The extension allows a server to present one of multiple possible certificates on the same IP address and TCP port number and hence allows multiple secure (HTTPS) websites (or any other service over TLS) to be served by the same IP address without requiring all those sites to use the same certificate. It is the conceptual equivalent to HTTP/1.1 name-based virtual hosting, but for HTTPS. This also allows a proxy to forward client traffic to the right server during TLS/SSL handshake. The desired hostname is not encrypted in the original SNI extension, so an eavesdropper can see which site is being requested. The SNI extension was specified in 2003 in RFC 3546

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Background of the problem

Prior to SNI, when making a TLS connection, the client had no way to specify which site it was trying to connect to. Hence, if one server hosts multiple sites on a single listener, the server has no way to know which certificate to use in the TLS protocol. In more detail, when making a TLS connection, the client requests a digital certificate from the web server. Once the server sends the certificate, the client examines it and compares the name it was trying to connect to with the name(s) included in the certificate. If a match occurs, the connection proceeds as normal. If a match is not found, the user may be warned of the discrepancy and the connection may abort as the mismatch may indicate an attempted man-in-the-middle attack. However, some applications allow the user to bypass the warning to proceed with the connection, with the user taking on the responsibility of trusting the certificate and, by extension, the connection.

However, it may be hard – or even impossible due to lack of a full list of all names in advance – to obtain a single certificate that covers all names a server will be responsible for. A server that is responsible for multiple hostnames is likely to need to present a different certificate for each name (or small group of names). It is possible to use subjectAltName to contain multiple domains controlled by one person2 in a single certificate. Such "unified communications certificates" must be reissued every time the list of domains changes.

Name-based virtual hosting allows multiple DNS hostnames to be hosted by a single server (usually a web server) on the same IP address. To achieve this, the server uses a hostname presented by the client as part of the protocol (for HTTP the name is presented in the host header). However, when using HTTPS, the TLS handshake happens before the server sees any HTTP headers. Therefore, it was not possible for the server to use the information in the HTTP host header to decide which certificate to present and as such only names covered by the same certificate could be served from the same IP address.

In practice, this meant that an HTTPS server could only serve one domain (or small group of domains) per IP address for secured and efficient browsing. Assigning a separate IP address for each site increases the cost of hosting, since requests for IP addresses must be justified to the regional Internet registry and IPv4 addresses are now exhausted. For IPv6, it increases the administrative overhead by having multiple IPs on a single machine, even though the address space is not exhausted. The result was that many websites were effectively constrained from using secure communications.

Technical principles

SNI addresses this issue by having the client send the name of the virtual domain as part of the TLS negotiation's ClientHello message.3 This enables the server to select the correct virtual domain early and present the browser with the certificate containing the correct name. Therefore, with clients and servers that implement SNI, a server with a single IP address can serve a group of domain names for which it is impractical to get a common certificate.

SNI was added to the IETF's Internet RFCs in June 2003 through RFC 3546, Transport Layer Security (TLS) Extensions. The latest version of the standard is RFC 6066.

Security implications

Server Name Indication payload is not encrypted, thus the hostname of the server the client tries to connect to is visible to a passive eavesdropper. This protocol weakness was exploited by security software for network filtering and monitoring456 and governments to implement censorship.7

Presently, there are multiple technologies attempting to hide Server Name Indication:

Domain fronting

Main article: Domain fronting

Domain fronting is a technique of replacing the desired host name in SNI with another one hosted by the same server or, more frequently, network of servers known as a content delivery network. When a client uses domain fronting, it replaces the server domain in SNI (unencrypted), but leaves it in the HTTP host header (which is encrypted by TLS) so that server can serve the right content. Domain fronting violates the standard defining SNI itself,[where?] so its compatibility is limited (many services check that SNI host matches the HTTP header host and reject connections with domain-fronted SNI as invalid). While domain fronting was used in the past to avoid government censorship,8 its popularity dwindled because major cloud providers (Google, Amazon's AWS and CloudFront) explicitly prohibit it in their TOS and have technical restrictions against it.9

Encrypted Client Hello

Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) is a TLS 1.3 protocol extension that enables encryption of the whole Client Hello message, which is sent during the early stage of TLS 1.3 negotiation.10 ECH encrypts the payload with a public key that the relying party (a web browser) needs to know in advance, which means ECH is most effective with large CDNs known to browser vendors in advance.

The initial 2018 version of this extension was called Encrypted SNI (ESNI)11 and its implementations were rolled out in an "experimental" fashion to address this risk of domain eavesdropping.121314 Firefox 85 removed support for ESNI.15 In contrast to ECH, Encrypted SNI encrypted just the SNI rather than the whole Client Hello.16 Opt-in support for this version was incorporated into Firefox in October 201817 and required enabling DNS over HTTPS (DoH).18

In March 2020, ESNI was reworked into the ECH extension, after analysis demonstrated that encrypting only the SNI is insufficient. For example, specifications permit the Pre-Shared Key extension to contain any data to facilitate session resumption, even transmission of a cleartext copy of exactly the same server name that is encrypted by ESNI. Also, encrypting extensions one-by-one would require an encrypted variant of every extension, each with potential privacy implications, and even that exposes the set of extensions advertised. Lastly, real-world deployment of ESNI has exposed interoperability limitations.19 The short name was ECHO in March 202020 and changed to ECH in May 2020.21

Both ESNI and ECH are compatible only with TLS 1.3 because they rely on KeyShareEntry which was first defined in TLS 1.3.2223 Also, to use ECH, the client must not propose TLS versions below 1.3.24

Another Internet Draft incorporates a parameter for transmitting the ECH public keys via HTTPS and SVCB DNS record types, shortening the handshake process.2526

In August 2020, the Great Firewall of China started blocking ESNI traffic, while still allowing ECH traffic.27

In October 2020, Russian ISP Rostelecom and its mobile operator Tele2 started blocking ESNI traffic.28 In September of the same year, Russian censorship ministry Roscomnadzor planned to ban a range of encryption protocols, among which were TLS 1.3 and ESNI, which hindered web site access censorship.293031

In July 2023, in the IETF117 meeting, members working on ECH informed Chrome and Firefox were doing a 1% sample trial, and the team expects the final draft to be submitted to the IESG evaluation by January 2024.3233

In Sep 2023, Cloudflare started to support ECH for hosted domains.34

ECH is enabled in Firefox by default since version 119, and is recommended by Mozilla to be used along with DNS over HTTPS.35 In September 2023, Chromium version 117 (used in Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Samsung Internet, and Opera) enabled it by default, also requiring keys to be deployed in HTTPS resource records in DNS.3637

Implementation

In 2004, a patch for adding TLS/SNI into OpenSSL was created by the EdelKey project.38 In 2006, this patch was then ported to the development branch of OpenSSL, and in 2007 it was back-ported to OpenSSL 0.9.8 (first released in 0.9.8f39). First web browsers with SNI support appeared in 2006 (Mozilla Firefox 2.0, Internet Explorer 7), web servers later (Apache HTTP Server in 2009, Microsoft IIS in 2012).

For an application program to implement SNI, the TLS library it uses must implement it and the application must pass the hostname to the TLS library. Further complicating matters, the TLS library may either be included in the application program or be a component of the underlying operating system. Because of this, some browsers implement SNI when running on any operating system, while others implement it only when running on certain operating systems.

Support

Support
SNI SupportECH Support
SoftwareTypeSupportedNotesSinceSupportedNotes
Alpine (email client)IMAP email clientYesSince version 2.22402019-02-18
Internet ExplorerWeb browserYesSince version 7 on Vista (not supported on XP)2006No
EdgeWeb browserYesAll versionsYesSince v105 behind flag41
Mozilla FirefoxWeb browserYesSince version 2.02006YesIntroduced in v85 behind flag.42 Enabled by default in v118 when DoH is enabled.43
cURLCommand-line tool and libraryYesSince version 7.18.12008Partial4445
SafariWeb browserYesNot supported on Windows XPNo46
Google ChromeWeb browserYes2010YesSince v105 behind flag.47
BlackBerry 10Web browserYesSupported in all BB10 releases2013No
BlackBerry OSNo
Barracuda WAFReverse ProxyYesSupported since version 7.8482013
Barracuda ADCLoad balancerYesFrontend support since version 4.0 and backend support from v5.249Frontend 2013 / Backend 2015
Windows MobileWeb browserSome time after 6.5No
Android browser(discontinued in Android 4.2)Web browserYesHoneycomb (3.x) for tablets and Ice Cream Sandwich (4.x) for phones2011No
Firefox for AndroidWeb browserYesSupported for browsing. Sync and other services support SNI only since version 86.50Only on Firefox Beta and Nightly is possible to enable DoH by a flag.
wgetCommand-line toolYesSince version 1.142012
Nokia Browser for SymbianWeb browserNoNo
Opera Mobile for SymbianWeb browserNoNot supported on Series60No
DilloWeb browserYesSince version 3.12016
IBM HTTP ServerWeb serverYesSince version 9.0.05152
Apache TomcatWeb serverYesNot supported before 8.5 (backport from 9)
Apache HTTP ServerWeb serverYesSince version 2.2.122009
Microsoft IISWeb serverYesSince version 8 (part of Windows Server 2012)2012
nginxWeb serverYesSince version 0.5.232007No53
JettyWeb serverYesSince version 9.3.02015
HCL DominoWeb serverYesSince version 11.0.12020
HCL NotesWorkflow clientYesSince version 14.0202354
H2OWeb serverYesYes5556
BoringSSLLibraryYesYes57
BSAFE Micro Edition SuiteLibraryYesVersion 5.058
GnuTLSLibraryYesNoWork in progress as July 2023.59
LibreSSLLibraryYesNo60
Mbed TLSLibraryYesNo
Mozilla NSS client sideLibraryYesSince version 3.11.1612006Yes62
Mozilla NSS server sideLibraryNo63No
OpenSSLLibraryYesNo64
PicotlsLibraryYesYes65
RustlsLibraryYesNoSupports client-side ECH; server-side ECH still todo as of August 202466
SwiftNIO SSLLibraryYesNo67
wolfSSLLibraryYesYesSince v5.6.368
4th DimensionStandard libraryNoNot supported in 15.2 or earlierNo
ColdFusion / LuceeStandard libraryYesColdFusion since Version 10 Update 18, 11 Update 7, Lucee since Version 4.5.1.019, Version 5.0.0.502015
ErlangStandard libraryYesSince version r172013
GoStandard libraryYesSince version 1.42011Cloudflare/go fork provides support69
JavaStandard libraryYesSince version 1.72011
PerlStandard libraryYesSince Net::SSLeay version 1.50 and IO::Socket::SSL version 1.562012
PHPStandard libraryYesSince version 5.32014
PythonStandard libraryYesSupported in 2.x from 2.7.9 and 3.x from 3.2 (in ssl, urllib[2] and httplib modules)2011 for Python 3.x and 2014 for Python 2.x
QtStandard libraryYesSince version 4.82011
RubyStandard libraryYesSince version 2.0 (in net/http)2011
HiawathaWeb serverYesSince version 8.62012NoDepends on Mbed TLS.70
lighttpdWeb serverYesSince version 1.4.242009YesSince version 1.4.7771
HAProxyLoad balancerYesSince version 1.5-dev12722012No73
OpenBSD httpdWeb serverYesSince OpenBSD version 6.1742017-04-11NoDepends on OpenSSL.75

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