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7123

SNIF relay control

Control connection for SNIF, an SNI-based end-to-end TLS forwarding relay.

TCP IANA registry

Description

IANA assigned 7123 to VESvault Corp in December 2021 as snif, referencing draft-zubov-snif section 4.3: the TCP port is the SNIF end-to-end TLS relay control connection, and the UDP registration covers the same relay over QUIC. SNIF lets a device behind NAT allocate a public hostname, obtain a publicly trusted certificate for it, and accept inbound TLS connections through a relay that forwards by SNI without ever holding the private key. A connector on the device keeps the control connection to the relay open; the relay is the side that listens on 7123.

Exposed to the internet?

Fine to expose

A SNIF relay is meant to be publicly reachable, and the design keeps the TLS private key on the end device so the relay only forwards ciphertext.

Check it yourself

$ nc -vz TARGET 7123

See also

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