Managing Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) in Identity Management (IdM)

The Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol allows automated interactions between certificate authorities and your servers. This means you can automate the deployment of your public key infrastructure at a low cost, with relatively little effort. ACME provides automated identifier validation and certificate issuance, and its goal is to improve security by providing certificates with a short lifespan (3 months by default, in line with the Let’s Encrypt specification), and by avoiding manual (and error-prone) processes from certificate lifecycle management. The Let’s Enc

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