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Postpone MAC based recovery 

Currently, Let's Encrypt does not support either of the account recovery mechanisms anyways.
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Richard Körber 2015-12-22 00:13:36 +01:00
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The following features are planned to be completed for the first beta release, but are still missing:
* Support of MAC-based account recovery.
* `proofOfPossession-01` and `tls-sni-01` challenge support.
## Contribute

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## Contact-Based Recovery
**NOTE**: Contact-Based Recovery is [currently not supported by _Let's Encrypt_](https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/issues/432).
On this recovery method, the CA contacts the account owner via one of the contact addresses given on account creation. The owner is asked to take some action (e.g. clicking on a link in an email). If it was successful, the account data is transferred to the new account.
To initiate contact-based recovery, you first need to create a new key pair and an `Account` object. Then create a `Registration` object by passing the location URI of your _old_ account to the constructor. Finally, start the recovery process by invoking `recoverRegistration()`:
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```
`newAccountUri` is the location URI of your _new_ account.
## MAC-Based Recovery
**NOTE**: MAC-Based Recovery is [currently not supported by _Let's Encrypt_](https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/issues/433).
On this recovery method, the client proves to the server that it holds a secret value that was established when the initial account was registered.
_acme4j_ does currently not support MAC-based recovery.