Automated Certificate Management Environment

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The Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol is a communications protocol for automating interactions between certificate authorities and their users' web servers, allowing the automated deployment of public key infrastructure at very low cost.[1][2] It was designed by the Internet Security Research Group for their Let's Encrypt service.[1]

The protocol, based on passing JSON-formatted messages over HTTPS,[2][3] has been published as an Internet-Draft.[4]

The Internet Security Research Group provides reference open source software implementations for ACME: letsencrypt is a Python-based implementation of server certificate management software using the ACME protocol,[5] and boulder is a CA implementation, written in the Go programming language.[6]

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