[Pki-devel] [acme] getOrderByAuthorization() / orders and authorisations

Just want to flag something related to ACME orders and authorisations. In ACME authorizations can be shared by multiple orders. In fact you can also "preauthorize" your account for an identifier, so there can also be a authorizations with no orders attached. Does the way we have implemented the ACME service ensure that an authorization has only one order (or at most one order)? If so, do we want it that way? It entails that every identifier must be re-authorised upon every order. Personally I think this is not the way we want to go. Let me describe a scenario. Client orders a cert for a.example.com, completes the authorisation for a.example.com, and gets the cert. Shortly afterwards, they realise they also need b.example.com on the certificate. So they make a new order with BOTH identifiers. Should the client have to complete another authorisation for a.example.com, while their existing authorisation remains "fresh" (unexpired)? It is valid to require the client to re-authorise every identifier for every order. But it is not optimal. Ideally we should observe that for the account there is already a non-expired authorisation for "a.example.com", and attach that to the order (along with the new authorisation for "b.example.com" which the client must complete). Anyhow just some ideas as I proceed with implementation of the LDAP database implement. Let me know your thoughts. Cheers, Fraser