Certes 2.2.2

There is a newer version of this package available.
See the version list below for details.
dotnet add package Certes --version 2.2.2
NuGet\Install-Package Certes -Version 2.2.2
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package.
<PackageReference Include="Certes" Version="2.2.2" />
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package.
paket add Certes --version 2.2.2
#r "nuget: Certes, 2.2.2"
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package.
// Install Certes as a Cake Addin
#addin nuget:?package=Certes&version=2.2.2

// Install Certes as a Cake Tool
#tool nuget:?package=Certes&version=2.2.2

Certes

Certes is an ACME client runs on .NET 4.5+ and .NET Standard 1.3+, supports ACME v2 and wildcard certificates. It is aimed to provide an easy to use API for managing certificates during deployment processes.

Usage

Install Certes nuget package into your project:

Install-Package Certes

or using .NET CLI:

dotnet add package Certes

Let's Encrypt is the primary CA we supported. It's recommend testing against staging environment before using production environment, to avoid hitting the rate limits.

Account

Creating new ACME account:

var acme = new AcmeContext(WellKnownServers.LetsEncryptStagingV2);
var account = acme.NewAccount("admin@example.com", true);

// Save the account key for later use
var pemKey = acme.AccountKey.ToPem();

Use an existing ACME account:

// Load the saved account key
var accountKey = KeyFactory.FromPem(pemKey);
var acme = new AcmeContext(WellKnownServers.LetsEncryptStagingV2, accountKey);
var account = acme.Account();

See API doc for additional operations.

Order

Place a wildcard certificate order (DNS validation is required for wildcard certificates)

var order = await acme.NewOrder(new[] { "*.your.domain.name" });

Generate the value for DNS TXT record

var authz = (await order.Authorizations()).First();
var dnsChallenge = await authz.Dns();
var dnsTxt = acme.AccountKey.DnsTxt(dnsChallenge.Token);

Add a DNS TXT record to _acme-challenge.your.domain.name with dnsTxt value.

For non-wildcard certificate, HTTP challenge is also available

var order = await acme.NewOrder(new[] { "your.domain.name" });

Authorization

Get the token and key authorization string

var authz = (await order.Authorizations()).First();
var httpChallenge = await authz.Http();
var keyAuthz = httpChallenge.KeyAuthz;

Save the key authorization string in a text file, and upload it to http://your.domain.name/.well-known/acme-challenge/<token>

Validate

Ask the ACME server to validate our domain ownership

await challenge.Validate();

Certificate

Download the certificate once validation is done

var privateKey = KeyFactory.NewKey(KeyAlgorithm.ES256);
var cert = await order.Generate(new CsrInfo
{
    CountryName = "CA",
    State = "Ontario",
    Locality = "Toronto",
    Organization = "Certes",
    OrganizationUnit = "Dev",
    CommonName = "your.domain.name",
}, privateKey);

Export full chain certification

var certPem = cert.ToPem();

Export PFX

var pfxBuilder = cert.ToPfx(privateKey);
var pfx = pfxBuilder.Build("my-cert", "abcd1234");

Check the APIs for more details.

For ACME v1, please see the doc here.

CLI

The CLI is available as a dotnet global tool. .NET Core Runtime 2.1+ is required to use dotnet tools.

To install Certes CLI (you may need to restart the console session if this is the first dotnet tool installed)

dotnet tool install --global dotnet-certes

Use the --help option to get started

certes --help

or check this AppVeyor script for renewing certificates on Azure apps.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Also check the changelog to see what's we are working on.

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Provides API for configuring ASP.NET Core to automatically generate HTTPS certificates. This configures your server to use the ACME protocol to connect with a certificate authority (CA), such as Let's Encrypt (https://letsencrypt.org), to verify ownership of your domain name and generate a HTTPS certificate. This happens automatically when the server starts up, and will renew the certificate automatically when the expiration date is near. This only works with Kestrel, which is the default server configuration for ASP.NET Core projects. Other servers, such as IIS and nginx, are not supported.

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