Hey all,
In honor of ACME finally being published as an RFC, my co-authors and I wrote a quick blog post announcing ACME and why it matters:
The tl;dr is:
- Certificates are necessary to make secure applications scale
- Getting a certificate used to be hard, but ACME makes it easy
- Now we can encrypt all the things!
For those of you more at the networking layer, think of it like DHCP -- long ago, IP address assignment was manual and slow, and we needed an automated way of handing out addresses to make the Internet scale. Same thing here, but for the PKI.
Sincere thanks to the many contributors to this work!
--Richard
