Overview of international standards and cutting-edge research on automated certificate management

Li Longxin; Yan Zheng; Wang Haiguang; Li Tieyan

doi:10.11959/j.issn.2096-109x.AQ24264

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Overview of international standards and cutting-edge research on automated certificate management

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- Overview of international standards and cutting-edge research on automated certificate management
- Chinese Journal of Network and Information Security Vol. 12, Issue 2, Pages: 1-21(2026)
- 作者机构：
  
  1.西安电子科技大学广州研究院，广东广州 510555
  2.西安电子科技大学网络与信息安全学院，陕西西安 710126
  3.华为技术有限公司可信技术实验室谢尔德实验室，新加坡 486035
- 作者简介：
- 基金信息：
  
  The National Natural Science Foundation of China(U23A20300;62072351)
- DOI：10.11959/j.issn.2096-109x.AQ24264
  CLC： TP393
- Received：26 October 2025，
  
  Revised：2026-02-26，
  
  Published：25 April 2026
- 稿件说明：
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李龙鑫, 闫峥, 王海光, 等. 自动化证书管理国际标准和前沿研究综述[J]. 网络与信息安全学报, 2026, 12(2): 1-21.

Li Longxin, Yan Zheng, Wang Haiguang, et al. Overview of international standards and cutting-edge research on automated certificate management[J]. Chinese Journal of Network and Information Security, 2026, 12(2): 1-21.
李龙鑫, 闫峥, 王海光, 等. 自动化证书管理国际标准和前沿研究综述[J]. 网络与信息安全学报, 2026, 12(2): 1-21. DOI： 10.11959/j.issn.2096-109x.AQ24264.

Li Longxin, Yan Zheng, Wang Haiguang, et al. Overview of international standards and cutting-edge research on automated certificate management[J]. Chinese Journal of Network and Information Security, 2026, 12(2): 1-21. DOI： 10.11959/j.issn.2096-109x.AQ24264.

摘要

随着全球数字化浪潮的推进，全球网民数量和互联网服务访问量激增。与此同时，钓鱼邮件、网络窃听和身份伪造等网络攻击行为也日益增多，严重威胁互联网的生态安全。为解决这一问题，公钥基础设施被广泛用于构建互联网通信双方之间的信任关系。近年来，随着公钥证书需求量的激增，证书管理效率低成为核心瓶颈。自动证书管理技术的出现，标志着公钥基础设施进入一个新的发展阶段，提升了公钥证书管理的效率，推动了互联网安全加密通信的普及。然而，目前尚未有综述对自动化证书管理相关研究进行系统性讨论和总结。为此，围绕自动化证书管理环境（ACME）技术的发展情况展开全面调研，对自动化证书管理技术的相关国际标准和学术研究等文献（涵盖2019年至今的相关标准和学术研究等文献）进行了梳理，呈现了自动化证书管理技术的发展时间线，并对现有文献进行了分类和归纳。此外，提出了一套针对自动化证书管理研究的评价体系，涵盖功能性、安全性、可用性和性能4个维度。基于这一评价体系，对相关研究工作进行了分析与对比。最后，探讨了现有自动化证书管理技术的主要问题和未来的研究方向。

Abstract

With the advancement of global digitalization

there has been a significant increase in the number of internet users and internet service traffic worldwide. Concurrently

cyber-attack behaviors such as phishing emails

network eavesdropping

and identity forgery have become more prevalent

posing severe threats to Internet security. To address this issue

public key infrastructure is widely used to establish a trust relationship between the two parties of internet communication. In recent years

with the surge in the demand for public key certificates

the efficiency of certificate management has become a core bottleneck. The emergence of automatic certificate management technology marks the entry of public key infrastructure into a new stage of development

improving the efficiency of public key certificate management and promoting the popularization of secure encrypted communication on the internet. However

there is currently no comprehensive review that systematically discusses and summarizes the research related to automatic certificate management. Therefore

a comprehensive investigation was conducted on the development of ACME technology

and the relevant international standards and academic research on automatic certificate management technologies (covering relevant standards and academic research from 2019 to the present) were sorted out. The development timeline of automatic certificate management technology was presented

and the existing literature was classified and summarized. In addition

a set of evaluation system for automatic certificate management research was proposed

covering four dimensions: functionality

security

usability

and performance. Based on this evaluation system

the related research work was analyzed and compared. Finally

the main problems of the existing automatic certificate management technologies and future research directions were discussed.

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