Google Chrome browser is testing Encrypted Client Hello Privacy Protection

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Coje_He for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com November 26 news, in the latest version of Google Chrome browser on Canary channel, users can turn on the experimental Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) function. ECH, also known as Secure SNI, is mainly used to enhance the privacy protection of Internet connections.

The core of ECH is to ensure that hostnames are not exposed to Internet service providers, network providers, and other entities capable of monitoring network traffic. New use in the latest Chrome Canary version means that other Chromium-based browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, and so on, will follow the deployment.

CTOnews.com learned that Mozilla has been supporting ECH on the Firefox browser Firefox since 2021.

The enabling steps are as follows:

1. Make sure that the latest version of Chrome Canary is installed so that users can access chrome://settings/ help, and then Chrome checks for updates and installs any updates it finds. Then you need to restart to complete the update.

two。 Load chrome://flags/#encrypted-client-hello in the browser's address bar.

3. Set Encrypted ClientHello to enable (Enabled)

4. Restart Google Chrome browser again

Google describes this feature as follows:

When enabled, Chrome enables Encrypted ClientHello support. If the server enables the extension through HTTPS DNS records, TLS ClientHello is encrypted.