[question] Easy migration from certbot? / Starting with existing keypair

[abeluck]

I have an existing LE account and cert+keypair generated by certbot.

However, now I am in the situation where I need to regenerate certs while keeping the same key pair (for pinning purposes), so I want to move to acmebot.

How can I bootstrap acemebot in such a way that I can keep my (1) LE account, (2) public/private keypair? Is this possible?

[plinss]

I'm not sure about migrating the LE account information, but I can research it. acmebot just stores the raw json for the client key and registration info from the acme library so it might be doable if I can find the data in the certbot files.

For the client keys, all you need to do is copy the key file(s) into the location that acmebot expects (or configure acmebot to store the keys where they currently are) and it will detect and re-use them (it will auto-generate any missing backup/ecdsa keys).

There's nothing preventing you from using the same key(s) and just registering a new account. You might have issues getting authorizations for domains that are currently authorized under another account, but those expire after 10 days or so.