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Re:Google wants to reduce lifespan for HTTPS certificates to... by throw0101a on Sunday August 18, 2019 @07:49PM (#20733706)
ACME only became an RFC in March 2019: it's a Johnny Come Lately to the cert world. And it's not like it was the first/only game in town for cert issuing APIs:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrollment_over_Secure_Transpo...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Certificate_Enrollment_...

ACME is the third kick at the can AFAICT. Some people could perhaps be excused for thinking ACME/LE was just another flash in the pan.

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