ACME (Automated Certificate Management Environment)

An extensible framework for automating the issuance and domain validation procedures, thereby allowing servers and infrastructural software to obtain certificates without user interaction.

More about the Buypass ACME initiative here: https://www.buypass.com/ssl/acme

Resources

• JavaZone 2017: Automating the S in HTTPS using ACME
• Wikipedia: Automated Certificate Management Environment
• Github: IETF ACME Working Group
• https://certbot.eff.org/