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The entire reason ACME exists is because you are never writing or reading the CSR by hand.

So of course, ACME is based around a format whose entire reason d'etre is being written and read by hand.

It's weird.




The reason json is a good format for ACME isn't that it is easy to read and write by hand[1], but that most languages have at least one decent json implementation available, so it is easier to implement clients in many different languages.

[1]: although being easy to read by humans is an advantage when debugging why something isn't working.




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