RFC 8737: Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) TLS Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) Challenge Extension

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This document specifies a new challenge for the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol that allows for domain control validation using TLS.

Document record

Document ID

RFC8737

Published

February 2020

Authors

R.B. Shoemaker

Status

PROPOSED STANDARD

Stream

IETF

Area

sec

Pages

8

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• DOI: 10.17487/RFC8737

Topics

• acme
• pki

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• IETF stream
• sec area