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RFC 8739: Support for Short-Term, Automatically Renewed (STAR) Certificates in the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME)

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Public key certificates need to be revoked when they are compromised, that is, when the associated private key is exposed to an unauthorized entity. However, the revocation process is often unreliable. An alternative to revocation is issuing a sequence of certificates, each with a short validity period, and terminating the sequence upon compromise. This memo proposes an Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) extension to enable the issuance of Short-Term, Automatically Renewed (STAR) X.509 certificates.

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Document ID
RFC8739
Published
March 2020
Authors
Y. Sheffer; D. Lopez; O. Gonzalez de Dios; A. Pastor Perales; T. Fossati
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
sec
Pages
22
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