Re: [therightkey] Proposal: ACME list

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Fri, 21 November 2014 10:05 UTC

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On 20/11/14 22:58, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx> wrote:
>> As some of you may have heard, some of us have been working on a protocol to
>> automate certificate management, including things like registration,
>> enrollment, issuance, and revocation.
>> <https://github.com/letsencrypt/acme-spec>
>>
>> There is some similarity to existing CA-proprietary issuance APIs, and to
>> projects like SSLMate.
>> <https://sslmate.com/>
>>
>> Would folks be interested in spinning up an IETF mailing list on this topic?
>> It seems like we could probably get this in shape for a BoF in Dallas.
> 
> There is definitely a need for this to enable use of short liver certs

Lovely typo! (Or were you only kidneying:-)

> and to clean up the mess of existing proposals, none of which are
> really viable as automated protocols.
> 
> I proposed this a while back:
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hallambaker-omnipublish-00

Yep, this seems like something we've all been waiting to see
happen, and given that we have credible folks announcing the
accompanying service(s) too, and being willing to run their
protocol through here, I think it's probably a fine plan to
start that list - I'll go ask and get back here once it's
sorted.

Cheers,
S.

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