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Certificate Enrolment Protocols

Certificate Enrolment Protocols are the interoperable standards that automate the lifecycle operations of requesting, issuing, renewing, and revoking X.509 digital certificates between Certificate Authorities (CAs), Registration Authorities (RAs), and end entities. The four major protocols in active deployment are ACME (RFC 8555, widely adopted via Let's Encrypt and cert-manager for web PKI), SCEP (legacy Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol widely supported in network devices and MDM), EST (RFC 7030, Enrollment over Secure Transport for modern HTTPS-capable devices), and CMP (RFC 4210 / RFC 9480, Certificate Management Protocol for enterprise PKI and industrial automation). This index tracks the specifications, reference implementations, and supporting infrastructure for each.

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ACME - Automatic Certificate Management Environment (RFC 8555)

ACME is an IETF standard defined in RFC 8555 that automates the interactions between CAs and web servers for validating domain control (http-01, dns-01, tls-alpn-01 challenges),...

SCEP - Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol

SCEP is a PKCS#7 / PKCS#10-based certificate enrollment protocol originally developed by Cisco in the late 1990s and standardized as informational RFC 8894. Despite its age, SCE...

EST - Enrollment over Secure Transport (RFC 7030)

EST provides HTTPS-based certificate enrollment over TLS, using mutual authentication or TLS with certificate-less client authentication to establish a secure channel before PKC...

CMP - Certificate Management Protocol (RFC 4210 / RFC 9480)

CMP provides comprehensive certificate lifecycle management including initialization, key update, revocation, cross-certification, and recovery for enterprise and industrial PKI...

cert-manager (Kubernetes ACME Client)

cert-manager is a CNCF Graduated Kubernetes controller that acts as an ACME, Vault, Venafi, and CA client to automatically issue and renew certificates declaratively for workloa...

Certbot (ACME Reference Client)

Certbot, maintained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), is the reference ACME client used to obtain and renew Let's Encrypt and other ACME CA certificates on web and ma...

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opencollection: 1.0.0
info:
  name: ACME (RFC 8555) Protocol API
  version: 1.0.0
items:
- info:
    name: Directory
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Retrieve ACME directory
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
    docs: Returns URLs for the supported resources of this ACME server.
  - info:
      name: Retrieve a new nonce
      type: http
    http:
      method: HEAD
      url: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/new-nonce
    docs: Retrieve a fresh anti-replay nonce in the Replay-Nonce header.
- info:
    name: Account
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Create or look up an account
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/new-account
      body:
        type: json
        data: '{}'
    docs: Create a new ACME account or retrieve an existing one. Body is a JWS object.
  - info:
      name: Roll over the account key
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/key-change
      body:
        type: json
        data: '{}'
    docs: Perform an account key rollover.
- info:
    name: Order
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Submit a certificate order
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/new-order
      body:
        type: json
        data: '{}'
    docs: Submit a certificate issuance order with identifiers (e.g. DNS names).
  - info:
      name: Retrieve an order
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/order/:id
      params:
      - name: id
        value: ''
        type: path
      body:
        type: json
        data: '{}'
    docs: Fetch order status and details (POST-as-GET signed request).
  - info:
      name: Finalize an order
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/order/:id/finalize
      params:
      - name: id
        value: ''
        type: path
      body:
        type: json
        data: '{}'
    docs: Finalize a ready order by submitting a CSR.
- info:
    name: Authorization
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Retrieve an authorization
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/authz/:id
      params:
      - name: id
        value: ''
        type: path
      body:
        type: json
        data: '{}'
    docs: Retrieve an authorization, including its challenges (POST-as-GET).
  - info:
      name: Respond to a challenge
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/chall/:id
      params:
      - name: id
        value: ''
        type: path
      body:
        type: json
        data: '{}'
    docs: Submit a challenge response indicating the client is ready for validation.
- info:
    name: Certificate
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Download an issued certificate
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/cert/:id
      params:
      - name: id
        value: ''
        type: path
      body:
        type: json
        data: '{}'
    docs: Download an issued certificate chain (PEM, POST-as-GET).
  - info:
      name: Revoke a certificate
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/revoke-cert
      body:
        type: json
        data: '{}'
    docs: Revoke a previously issued certificate.
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