[Acme] "authorized key pair" vs CSR keys

Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> Thu, 18 December 2014 12:12 UTC

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Subject: [Acme] "authorized key pair" vs CSR keys
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Dear List,

I'm trying to "decipher" this spec
https://letsencrypt.github.io/acme-spec/
but I got lost early on :-(

Does/can the CSR use another key-pair than the "authorized key pair"?

If not the outer signature seems a bit odd since the CSR itself should contain a signature.

Anders