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# Account deactivation

User may deactivate their account if the associated key was compromised, or must be forgotten. To do this, ACME client must send a POST request to the ACME Account URL:

```
POST https://stica.peeringhub.io/acme/acct/6A1AD155B73D45448E7B832888C3EF54
Content-Type: application/jose+json
Content-Length: 461
{
  "protected" : BASE64URL(
    {
      "alg": "ES256",
      "nonce": "7699E1AAD33D492ABB7D5A5326DC7D41",
      "url": "https://stica.peeringhub.io/acme/acct/6A1AD155B73D45448E7B832888C3EF54",
      "kid": "https://stica.peeringhub.io/acme/acct/6A1AD155B73D45448E7B832888C3EF54"
    }
  ),
  "payload" : BASE64URL(
    {
      "status" : "deactivated"
    }
  ),
  "signature" : "<base64url-encoded signature>"
}
```

ACME server shall return 200 OK with the ACME Account object. Account status must be changed to "deactivated".

```
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Replay-Nonce: 6ECE0681255347D0BB29FCE79E895FF1
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 112
{
  "status" : "deactivated",
  "orders" : "https://stica.peeringhub.io/acme/orders/6A1AD155B73D45448E7B832888C3EF54"
}
```

ACME server doesn't provide interface for re-enabling account after deactivation.