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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