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txacme: A Twisted implementation of the ACME protocol
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`ACME`_ is Automatic Certificate Management Environment, a protocol that allows
clients and certificate authorities to automate verification and certificate
issuance. The ACME protocol is used by the free `Let's Encrypt`_ Certificate
Authority.

``txacme`` is an implementation of the protocol for `Twisted`_, the
event-driven networking engine for Python.

``txacme`` is still under heavy development, and currently only an
implementation of the client side of the protocol is planned; if you are
interested in implementing or have need of the server side, please get in
touch!

``txacme``\ ’s documentation lives at `Read the Docs`_, the code on `GitHub`_.
It’s lightly tested on Python 3.6+, and PyPy3.

.. _ACME: https://github.com/ietf-wg-acme/acme/blob/master/draft-ietf-acme-acme.md

.. _Let's Encrypt: https://letsencrypt.org/

.. _Twisted: https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/

.. _Read the Docs: https://txacme.readthedocs.io/

.. _GitHub: https://github.com/twisted/txacme