Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)
RFC 8555
| Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(March 2019; No errata)
Was draft-ietf-acme-acme (acme WG)
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|---|---|---|---|
| Last updated | 2019-03-12 | ||
| Replaces | draft-barnes-acme | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Formats | plain text pdf html bibtex | ||
| Reviews | |||
| Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
| Document shepherd | Yoav Nir | ||
| Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2018-04-18) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 8555 (Proposed Standard) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
| Telechat date | |||
| Responsible AD | Eric Rescorla | ||
| Send notices to | Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> | ||
| IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
| IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack | ||
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) R. Barnes
Request for Comments: 8555 Cisco
Category: Standards Track J. Hoffman-Andrews
ISSN: 2070-1721 EFF
D. McCarney
Let's Encrypt
J. Kasten
University of Michigan
March 2019
Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)
Abstract
Public Key Infrastructure using 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. As of this writing, 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.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 7841.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8555.
Barnes, et al. Standards Track [Page 1]
RFC 8555 ACME March 2019
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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. GET and POST-as-GET Requests ..............................13
6.4. Request URL Integrity .....................................13
6.4.1. "url" (URL) JWS Header Parameter ...................14
6.5. Replay Protection .........................................14
6.5.1. Replay-Nonce .......................................15
6.5.2. "nonce" (Nonce) JWS Header Parameter ...............16
6.6. Rate Limits ...............................................16
6.7. Errors ....................................................16
6.7.1. Subproblems ........................................18
7. Certificate Management .........................................20
7.1. Resources .................................................20
7.1.1. Directory ..........................................23
7.1.2. Account Objects ....................................24
7.1.3. Order Objects ......................................26
7.1.4. Authorization Objects ..............................28
7.1.5. Challenge Objects ..................................30
7.1.6. Status Changes .....................................30
7.2. Getting a Nonce ...........................................34
7.3. Account Management ........................................34
7.3.1. Finding an Account URL Given a Key .................36
7.3.2. Account Update .....................................37
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