ACME, a brief history of one of the protocols which has changed the Internet Security
Preamble
I would like to share with you this article I wrote about the ACME protocol, which I “fell in love with” about ten years ago. It is for me a way to give back to this fantastic Free Software and Open Protocols developers community.
This article is about the roots, the conception, the standardization, the relation with its ecosystem and the evolution challenges faced by the ACME protocol.
To write this article, I had the privilege of interviewing several people who have been involved in the creation and the evolution of ACME: Aaron Gable, Sarah Gran, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews and J.C. Jones (more below).
Thank you so much to all of you for your time and support! 💚
Internet and Network Protocols
Open and Standardized Protocols at the Heart of the Internet’s Success
During the 1990s, computing underwent a true revolution driven by the rise and global spread of the Internet. The Internet fulfilled the promise embodied in Sun Microsystems’ slogan “The Network is the Computer”.
By interconnecting individual computers, the Internet enabled its users to communicate without limits and without worrying about borders.
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