I’ve recently finished porting cPanel’s implementation of Let’s Encrypt’s ACME (Automatic Certificate Management Envirionment) protocol to a new CPAN module, Net::ACME.

Net::ACME offers a number of attractive features:

- It’s based closely on cPanel’s widely used Let’s Encrypt plugin.

- Memory usage is light: no Moose/Moo/etc.

- It can run in pure Perl, as long as you have an OpenSSL binary. (Otherwise, it needs Crypt::OpenSSL::R…