Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)
draft-ietf-acme-acme-14
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ACME Working Group R. Barnes
Internet-Draft Cisco
Intended status: Standards Track J. Hoffman-Andrews
Expires: February 11, 2019 EFF
D. McCarney
Let's Encrypt
J. Kasten
University of Michigan
August 10, 2018
Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)
draft-ietf-acme-acme-14
Abstract
Public Key Infrastructure X.509 (PKIX) certificates are used for a
number of purposes, the most significant of which is the
authentication of domain names. Thus, certification authorities
(CAs) in the Web PKI are trusted to verify that an applicant for a
certificate legitimately represents the domain name(s) in the
certificate. Today, this verification is done through a collection
of ad hoc mechanisms. This document describes a protocol that a CA
and an applicant can use to automate the process of verification and
certificate issuance. The protocol also provides facilities for
other certificate management functions, such as certificate
revocation.
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be managed in GitHub, but any substantive change should be discussed
on the ACME mailing list (acme@ietf.org).
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Deployment Model and Operator Experience . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4. Protocol Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5. Character Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6. Message Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6.1. HTTPS Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6.2. Request Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.3. Request URL Integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.3.1. "url" (URL) JWS Header Parameter . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.4. Replay protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.4.1. Replay-Nonce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6.4.2. "nonce" (Nonce) JWS Header Parameter . . . . . . . . 14
6.5. Rate Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6.6. Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.6.1. Subproblems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
7. Certificate Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
7.1. Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
7.1.1. Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
7.1.2. Account Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
7.1.3. Order Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
7.1.4. Authorization Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
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