Re: [Acme] Revoking certificates issued by an unknown ACME server

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Fri, 15 January 2016 07:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Acme] Revoking certificates issued by an unknown ACME server
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On 15 January 2016 at 17:26, Hugo Landau <hlandau@devever.net> wrote:
> This isn't sanely automatable.


Correct.  But it doesn't require any work to define.  Do you have
evidence that suggests this scenario (a certificate issued by an ACME
server needs revocation by someone other than the one who requested
the certificate) would be commonplace enough to warrant automation?