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9877

x510 — X.510 wrapper protocol

The ITU-T X.510 wrapper protocol for secure directory operations — registered in 2019, seldom seen outside PKI and directory products.

TCP IANA registry

Description

IANA registered 9877/tcp as x510 in 2019 on behalf of ITU-T Study Group 17, referencing ITU-T X.510 / ISO/IEC 9584-11, "Protocol specifications for secure operations" in the OSI Directory series. The wrapper protocol carries authenticated and integrity-protected directory operations, and shows up in X.500-lineage directory and PKI implementations rather than general infrastructure. UDP 9877 is Reserved. On a typical network this port is empty.

Exposed to the internet?

Expose with care

The protocol is designed with its own authentication and integrity protection, but a directory service is still directory data. Expose it only if you have deliberately deployed X.510 and configured its trust anchors.

Check it yourself

$ nc -vz TARGET 9877

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