Implementation of ACME-based automated centralized certificate management system.

This paper describes the implementation of Automated Centralized Certificate Management System based on Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol within the Academic Scientific Research Computer Network of Armenia (ASNET-AM). Digital certificates are one of the major instruments, used for most network services today. The work done in ASNET-AM is based the recent availability of free wildcard SSL/TLS certificates from some certificate authorities (CA) like LetsEncrypt. The concept of implementing automated centralized certificate system was presented at CSIT 2019 Conference and this paper summarizes its implementation done during past years. The system described is now actively used in production and provides centralized secure and automated digital certificates service for different types of ASNET-AM network services such as web servers, mail servers, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]