Basics: Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)
The ACME protocol was designed by the operators of the Let's Encrypt project to automate the issuance of web server certificates . It is specified in RFC 8555 .
The goal is to automate the process of proving ownership of the DNS resource (IP addresses cannot currently be identified, but this is planned in the future), but not of the person or organization behind it, in order to subsequently be able to obtain a web server certificate without human interaction.
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