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A protocol for automating certificate issuance
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-acme-acme/
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Any chance the 'E' in ACME could stand for "Exchange" #32

Closed ebekker closed 8 years ago

ebekker commented 9 years ago

I've been curious what the Environment in "Automatic Certificate Management Environment" meant since the LE project first kicked off, and while I can come up with a few ideas, I wonder if it makes more sense to have the acronym stand for Automated Certificate Management and Exchange?

I'm sure I'm not the first one to suggest this, but I didn't see it in any of the comments or tickets, and I just wanted to throw it out there before the spec is finalized and ratified by the IETF.

coolaj86 commented 9 years ago

Or change the name entirely.

When I think of ACME I think of Wile E Coyote, Time Bombs, and Anvils, Tornado seeds, etc. And so do les googles.

Maybe "Automatic Registration for Authentic Domain Name Certificates" and call it CertReg for short... or go crazy and somehow rearrange it to spell ARACNID - to immortalize the glory of the web.

"Automatic Registration for Authentic Certificates for Names of Internet Domains, Securely"... err... or maybe that's worse.

What is this thing at its core? Let me try to sum it up, generically, in once sentence:

We are solving one of the core problems of Secure Network Programming by validating possession of Domain Names and then registering and issuing digital certificates automatically. (agnostic of ssl/tls/nextthing, https/SSMTP/other, network/internet/intranet)

ioistired commented 8 years ago

ARACNID gives new meaning to World-Wide Web. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: