John, how would a "newly deployed HTTPS server replacing or complementing an existing HTTPS server" obtain a copy of the private key that is associated with the "existing certificate" that it desires to "import" ?

IINM, whilst the current ACME draft handles proving possession of a private key, there's no mechanism for backing up a private key to an ACME server and/or for transferring a private key from one ACME client to another ACME client.
Do you think ACME should provide these facilities?
If not, is there any real gain to adding your proposed "Certificate Download" function, given that there would presumably be just as many "people flying back and forth just to manually transfer" private keys?

Thanks.

On 09/03/15 20:37, John Mattsson wrote:
Hi all,

I strongly support the ACME work. Certificate management is something
that really benefits from standardization and automatization.

We have some additional use cases that we think should be included
and that clearly falls into the ACME use case "obtaining certificates
for Web sites".

I wrote a short draft that illustrates the scenarios. Please
comment. Would be happy to give a short (5min?) presentation at the BoF.

Cheers,

John

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Name:draft-mattsson-acme-use-cases
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Title:Additional Use Cases for Automatic Certificate Management (ACME)
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Abstract:
  Contacting a CA is just one way in which a newly deployed HTTPS
  server can get hold of the certificate to use.  This document
  describes additional (and common) use cases that fall into the major
  guiding use case for ACME as stated by [I-D.barnes-acme], "obtaining
  certificates for Web sites".




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