Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation

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Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) is a Transport Layer Security (TLS) extension that allows the application layer to negotiate which protocol should be performed over a secure connection in a manner that avoids additional round trips and which is independent of the application-layer protocols. It is used to establish HTTP/2 connections without additional round trips (client and server can communicate over to ports previously assigned to HTTPS with HTTP/1.1 and upgrade to use HTTP/2 or continue with HTTP/1.1 without closing the initial connection).

Support

ALPN is supported by these libraries:

  • BSAFE Micro Edition Suite since version 5.0[1]
  • GnuTLS since version 3.2.0 released in May 2013[2]
  • MatrixSSL since version 3.7.1 released in December 2014[3]
  • Network Security Services since version 3.15.5 released in April 2014[4]
  • OpenSSL since version 1.0.2 released in January 2015[5]
  • LibreSSL since version 2.1.3 released in January 2015[6]
  • mbed TLS (previously PolarSSL) since version 1.3.6 released in April 2014[7]
  • s2n since its original public release in June 2015.
  • wolfSSL (formerly CyaSSL) since version 3.7.0 released in October 2015[8]
  • Go (in the standard library crypto/tls package) since version 1.4 released in December 2014[9]
  • JSSE in Java since JDK 9 released in September 2017,[10] backported to JDK 8 released in April 2020[11]
  • Win32 SSPI since Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 were released October 18, 2013[12]

History

Next Protocol Negotiation

In January 2010, Google introduced IETF standard draft describing Next Protocol Negotiation TLS extension.[13] This extension was used to negotiate experimental SPDY connections between Google Chrome and some of Google's servers. As SPDY evolved, NPN was replaced with ALPN.

Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation

On July 11, 2014, ALPN was published as RFC 7301. ALPN replaces Next Protocol Negotiation (NPN) extension.[14]

TLS False Start was disabled in Google Chrome from version 20 (2012) onward except for websites with the earlier NPN extension.[15]

Example

ALPN is a TLS extension which is sent on the initial TLS handshake 'Client Hello', and it lists the protocols that the client (for example the web browser) supports: 

Handshake Type: Client Hello (1)
    Length: 141
    Version: TLS 1.2 (0x0303)
    Random: dd67b5943e5efd0740519f38071008b59efbd68ab3114587...
    Session ID Length: 0
    Cipher Suites Length: 10
    Cipher Suites (5 suites)
    Compression Methods Length: 1
    Compression Methods (1 method)
    Extensions Length: 90
    [other extensions omitted]
    Extension: application_layer_protocol_negotiation (len=14)
        Type: application_layer_protocol_negotiation (16)
        Length: 14
        ALPN Extension Length: 12
        ALPN Protocol
            ALPN string length: 2
            ALPN Next Protocol: h2
            ALPN string length: 8
            ALPN Next Protocol: http/1.1

The resulting 'Server Hello' from the web server will also contain the ALPN extension, and it confirms which protocol will be used for the HTTP request: 

Handshake Type: Server Hello (2)
    Length: 94
    Version: TLS 1.2 (0x0303)
    Random: 44e447964d7e8a7d3b404c4748423f02345241dcc9c7e332...
    Session ID Length: 32
    Session ID: 7667476d1d698d0a90caa1d9a449be814b89a0b52f470e2d...
    Cipher Suite: TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (0xc02f)
    Compression Method: null (0)
    Extensions Length: 22
    [other extensions omitted]
    Extension: application_layer_protocol_negotiation (len=5)
        Type: application_layer_protocol_negotiation (16)
        Length: 5
        ALPN Extension Length: 3
        ALPN Protocol
            ALPN string length: 2
            ALPN Next Protocol: h2

References

  1. ↑ "Dell BSAFE Micro Edition Suite 5.0 Release Advisory". https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/000204231/dell-bsafe-micro-edition-suite-5-0-release-advisory. Retrieved 2022-10-18. 
  2. ↑ "gnutls 3.2.0". http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.gnutls.general/3136. Retrieved 2015-01-26. 
  3. ↑ "MatrixSSL - News". 2014-12-04. Archived from the original on 2015-02-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20150214105056/http://www.matrixssl.org/news.html. Retrieved 2015-01-26. 
  4. ↑ "NSS 3.15.5 release notes". Mozilla Developer Network. Mozilla. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.15.5_release_notes. Retrieved 2015-01-26. 
  5. ↑ "OpenSSL 1.0.2 release notes". The OpenSSL Project. 2015-01-22. https://www.openssl.org/news/openssl-1.0.2-notes.html. Retrieved 2015-01-26. 
  6. ↑ "LibreSSL 2.1.3 released". 2015-01-22. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=142193407304782. Retrieved 2015-01-26. 
  7. ↑ "Download overview - PolarSSL". 2014-04-11. https://polarssl.org/tech-updates/releases/polarssl-1.3.6-released. Retrieved 2015-01-26. 
  8. ↑ "wolfSSL Release Change Log". 2015-10-26. https://www.wolfssl.com/wolfSSL/Docs-wolfssl-changelog.html. Retrieved 2015-09-11. 
  9. ↑ "Go 1.4 Release Notes". 2014-12-10. https://golang.org/doc/go1.4#minor_library_changes. Retrieved 2017-11-28. 
  10. ↑ "JEP 244: TLS Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation Extension". 2017-08-07. https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8051498. Retrieved 2018-08-29. 
  11. ↑ "Release Note: TLS Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation Extension". 2020-04-30. https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8242894. Retrieved 2020-06-11. 
  12. ↑ "What's New in TLS/SSL (Schannel SSP)". 31 August 2016. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-R2-and-2012/hh831771(v=ws.11)?redirectedfrom=MSDN#whats-new-in-tlsssl-schannel-ssp-in-windows-server-2012-r2-and-windows-81. Retrieved 2020-03-30. 
  13. ↑ Langley, A. (January 20, 2010). Transport Layer Security (TLS) Next Protocol Negotiation Extension. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-agl-tls-nextprotoneg-00. 
  14. ↑ Langley, Adam. "» NPN and ALPN". https://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/03/20/alpn.html. Retrieved 2 April 2013. 
  15. ↑ Langley, Adam. "False Start's Failure (11 Apr 2012)". https://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/04/11/falsestart.html. Retrieved 25 September 2013. 

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