Automated Certificate Management Environment (acme) Internet Drafts

      
 ACME End User Client and Code Signing Certificates
 
 draft-ietf-acme-client-09.txt
 Date: 26/11/2024
 Authors: Kathleen Moriarty
 Working Group: Automated Certificate Management Environment (acme)
 Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) core protocol addresses the use case of web server certificates for TLS. This document extends the ACME protocol to support end user client, device client, and code signing certificates.
 ACME Integrations for Device Certificate Enrollment
 
 draft-ietf-acme-integrations-17.txt
 Date: 13/07/2023
 Authors: Owen Friel, Richard Barnes, Rifaat Shekh-Yusef, Michael Richardson
 Working Group: Automated Certificate Management Environment (acme)
 This document outlines multiple advanced use cases and integrations that ACME facilitates without any modifications or enhancements required to the base ACME specification. The use cases include ACME integration with EST, BRSKI and TEAP.
 Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) Node ID Validation Extension
 
 draft-ietf-acme-dtnnodeid-16.txt
 Date: 07/11/2024
 Authors: Brian Sipos
 Working Group: Automated Certificate Management Environment (acme)
 This document specifies an extension to the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol which allows an ACME server to validate the Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) Node ID for an ACME client. A DTN Node ID is an identifier used in the Bundle Protocol (BP) to name a "singleton endpoint", one which is registered on a single BP node. The DTN Node ID is encoded as a certificate Subject Alternative Name (SAN) of type otherName with a name form of BundleEID and as an ACME Identifier type "bundleEID".
 Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Renewal Information (ARI) Extension
 
 draft-ietf-acme-ari-07.txt
 Date: 06/12/2024
 Authors: Aaron Gable
 Working Group: Automated Certificate Management Environment (acme)
 This document specifies how an ACME server may provide suggestions to ACME clients as to when they should attempt to renew their certificates. This allows servers to mitigate load spikes, and ensures clients do not make false assumptions about appropriate certificate renewal periods.
 Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Device Attestation Extension
 
 draft-acme-device-attest-03.txt
 Date: 25/08/2024
 Authors: Brandon Weeks
 Working Group: Automated Certificate Management Environment (acme)
 This document specifies new identifiers and a challenge for the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol which allows validating the identity of a device using attestation.
 Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Extensions for ".onion" Special-Use Domain Names
 
 draft-ietf-acme-onion-05.txt
 Date: 02/12/2024
 Authors: Q Misell
 Working Group: Automated Certificate Management Environment (acme)
 The document defines extensions to the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) to allow for the automatic issuance of certificates to Tor hidden services (".onion" Special-Use Domain Names). Discussion This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/AS207960/acme-onion. The project website and a reference implementation can be found at https://acmeforonions.org.
 Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) DNS Labeled With ACME Account ID Challenge
 
 draft-ietf-acme-dns-account-label-00.txt
 Date: 13/11/2024
 Authors: Antonios Chariton, Amir Omidi, James Kasten, Fotis Loukos, Stanislaw Janikowski
 Working Group: Automated Certificate Management Environment (acme)
 This document outlines a new DNS-based challenge type for the ACME protocol that enables multiple independent systems to authorize a single domain name concurrently. By adding a unique label to the DNS validation record name, the dns-account-01 challenge avoids CNAME delegation conflicts inherent to the dns-01 challenge type. This is particularly valuable for multi-region or multi-cloud deployments that wish to rely upon DNS-based domain control validation and need to independently obtain certificates for the same domain.

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Automated Certificate Management Environment (acme)

WG Name Automated Certificate Management Environment
Acronym acme
Area Security Area (sec)
State Active
Charter charter-ietf-acme-01 Approved
Status update Show Changed 2018-07-19
Document dependencies
Additional resources Issue tracker, Wiki, Zulip Stream
Personnel Chairs Tomofumi Okubo, Yoav Nir
Area Director Deb Cooley
Mailing list Address acme@ietf.org
To subscribe https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/acme
Archive https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/acme/
Chat Room address https://zulip.ietf.org/#narrow/stream/acme

Charter for Working Group

Historically, issuance of certificates for Internet applications
(e.g., web servers) has involved many manual identity validation steps
by the certification authority (CA). The ACME WG will specify
conventions for automated X.509 certificate management, including
validation of control over an identifier, certificate issuance,
certificate renewal, and certificate revocation. The initial focus of
the ACME WG will be on domain name certificates (as used by web
servers), but other uses of certificates can be considered as work
progresses.

ACME certificate management must allow the CA to verify, in an
automated manner, that the party requesting a certificate has authority
over the requested identifiers, including the subject and subject
alternative names. The processing must also confirm that the requesting
party has access to the private key that corresponds to the public key
that will appear in the certificate. All of the processing must be done
in a manner that is compatible with common service deployment
environments, such as hosting environments.

ACME certificate management must, in an automated manner, allow an
authorized party to request revocation of a certificate.

The ACME working group is specifying ways to automate certificate
issuance, validation, revocation and renewal. The ACME working
group is not reviewing or producing certificate policies or
practices.

The starting point for ACME WG discussions shall be draft-barnes-acme.

Milestones

Date Milestone Associated documents
Nov 2024 Send Renewal Information Extension to the IESG for standards track publication draft-ietf-acme-ari
Nov 2024 Send draft-ietf-acme-onion the IESG for standards track publication draft-ietf-acme-onion
Nov 2024 Send draft-ietf-acme-dns-account-challenge to the IESG for standards track publication draft-ietf-acme-dns-account-challenge
Jul 2024 End user client and code signing certificates extension submitted to IESG or abandoned draft-ietf-acme-client
Apr 2024 Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) extensions submitted to IESG draft-ietf-acme-dtnnodeid

Done milestones

Date Milestone Associated documents
Done ACME integration with with EST, BRSKI and TEAP use cases submitted to IESG draft-ietf-acme-integrations
Done Profile for delegated STAR certificates submitted to IESG rfc9115 (was draft-ietf-acme-star-delegation)
Done S/MIME extension submitted to IESG rfc8823 (was draft-ietf-acme-email-smime)
Done TNAuthlist extension submitted to IESG rfc9447 (was draft-ietf-acme-authority-token)
rfc9448 (was draft-ietf-acme-authority-token-tnauthlist)
Done Submit working group draft to IESG as Proposed Standard rfc8555 (was draft-ietf-acme-acme)
Done Initial working group draft