ACME Demo

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TLS Encrypted
Perfect Forward Secrecy
Live Connection Details
How your browser connected
HTTPS
Protocol
TLS
Encryption Layer
HTTP Version
CT
Cert Transparency
HSTS
Strict Transport
Hostname
Certificate
Issued certificate details

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TLS Certificate Details

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Subject (Common Name)
Organization
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Issuer
Root CA
Valid From
Valid Until
Serial Number
Available in browser certificate viewer
Signature Algorithm
Public Key
Subject Alt Names
OCSP Status
Certificate Transparency
Cipher Suite
TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (TLS 1.3)
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TLS Handshake
What happened when you connected
1

Client Hello

Your browser opened a TCP connection and sent a ClientHello advertising supported TLS versions (1.3, 1.2), cipher suites, extensions, and a random nonce. Modern browsers request TLS 1.3 first.

2

Server Hello & Certificate Chain

The server replied with its chosen cipher suite and sent its X.509 certificate chain — the end-entity cert, any intermediate CA certs, and optionally a stapled OCSP response.

3

Key Exchange — ECDHE

An ECDH key exchange (P-256 or X25519) produced a shared secret that neither side ever transmitted. This secret is ephemeral — discarded after the session — giving perfect forward secrecy: future key compromise cannot decrypt past traffic.

4

Certificate Verification

Your browser verified the certificate chain against its trusted root store, checked the digital signature, confirmed the hostname matches the cert's CN / SANs, verified the certificate is not expired, and checked revocation status via OCSP.

5

Finished — Secure Channel Open

Both sides derived symmetric session keys and exchanged Finished messages. All subsequent HTTP traffic is encrypted with AES-256-GCM, authenticated (AEAD), and integrity-protected. You are here now. ✓

ACME Protocol
How ACME certificate provisioning works
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Automated Provisioning

ACME (RFC 8555) lets a server prove domain ownership to a CA and receive a signed certificate with zero manual steps — no CSR forms, no portal logins, no copy-paste.

Domain Validation

The CA issued an HTTP-01 or DNS-01 challenge. The ACME client placed the required token at a well-known URL (or DNS record), and the CA verified control before issuing the cert.

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Automatic Renewal

The ACME client monitors expiry and re-runs the full provisioning flow before the cert expires — typically at the 60-day mark for Let's Encrypt 90-day certs. Zero downtime, zero manual action required.

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IIS & Windows Integration

On Windows Server / IIS, clients like win-acme (wacs.exe) and Certify The Web handle the full ACME flow, bind the cert to the IIS site binding, and register a scheduled renewal task automatically.