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do-know authored Mar 12, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -98,6 +98,13 @@ If you are using IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) and generating a certifica
or let the client do that for you. Please note that for the conversion to work properly you need to have correct locale settings on your system. For
Linux-based systems you can check that with the "locale" command, for Windows make sure that "System locale" in the Control Panel is set correctly.

EAB (EXTERNAL ACCOUNT BINDING) SUPPORT

Some ACME-compatible Certificate Authorities manage their accounts differently from how ACME accounts are normally created, but link those to an ACME
account through so-called External Account Binding. In essence, you would need to get 2 additional parameters from those CAs and use those on the command
line. Those parameters are the "Key ID" ('eab-kid') and "HMAC Key" ('eab-hmac-key').

Please note that the same EAB credentials, depending on the CA, might be allowed to be used for multiple ACME accounts or just one.

PLUGINS

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