diff --git a/bin/telebit-remote.js b/bin/telebit-remote.js
index 66b3c65..75a5993 100755
--- a/bin/telebit-remote.js
+++ b/bin/telebit-remote.js
@@ -768,7 +768,6 @@ state.keystoreSecure = !keystore.insecure;
 keystore.all().then(function (list) {
   var keyext = '.key.jwk.json';
   var key;
-  var convert;
   // TODO create map by account and index into that map to get the master key
   // and sort keys in the process
   list.some(function (el) {
@@ -778,14 +777,6 @@ keystore.all().then(function (list) {
       return true;
     }
   });
-  if (!key) {
-    list.some(function (el) {
-      if (el.password.kty) {
-        convert = el.password;
-        return true;
-      }
-    });
-  }
 
   if (key) {
     state.key = key;
@@ -796,7 +787,6 @@ keystore.all().then(function (list) {
 
   return keypairs.generate().then(function (pair) {
     var jwk = pair.private;
-    if (convert) { jwk = convert; }
     return keypairs.thumbprint({ jwk: jwk }).then(function (kid) {
       jwk.kid = kid;
       return keystore.set(kid + keyext, jwk).then(function () {
diff --git a/bin/telebitd.js b/bin/telebitd.js
index 190c955..d17a9ba 100755
--- a/bin/telebitd.js
+++ b/bin/telebitd.js
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ try {
 
 var pkg = require('../package.json');
 
+var crypto = require('crypto');
 //var url = require('url');
 var path = require('path');
 var os = require('os');
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ var startTime = Date.now();
 var connectTimes = [];
 var isConnected = false;
 var eggspress = require('../lib/eggspress.js');
+var keypairs = require('keypairs');
 
 var TelebitRemote = require('../lib/daemon/index.js').TelebitRemote;
 
@@ -370,6 +372,50 @@ controllers.relay = function (req, res) {
     res.end(JSON.stringify(resp));
   });
 };
+controllers._nonces = {};
+controllers._requireNonce = function (req, res, next) {
+	var nonce = req.jws && req.jws.protected && req.jws.protected.nonce;
+	var active = (Date.now() - controllers._nonces[nonce]) < (4 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
+	if (!active) {
+		// TODO proper headers and error message
+		res.end({ "error": "invalid or expired nonce", "error_code": "ENONCE" });
+		return;
+	}
+	delete controllers._nonces[nonce];
+	controllers._issueNonce(req, res);
+	next();
+};
+controllers._issueNonce = function (req, res) {
+  var nonce = toUrlSafe(crypto.randomBytes(16).toString('base64'));
+  // TODO associate with a TLS session
+  controllers._nonces[nonce] = Date.now();
+  res.headers.set("Replay-Nonce", nonce);
+	return nonce;
+};
+controllers.newNonce = function (req, res) {
+  res.statusCode = 200;
+	res.headers.set("Cache-Control", "max-age=0, no-cache, no-store");
+	// TODO
+	//res.headers.set("Date", "Sun, 10 Mar 2019 08:04:45 GMT");
+	// is this the expiration of the nonce itself? methinks maybe so
+	//res.headers.set("Expires", "Sun, 10 Mar 2019 08:04:45 GMT");
+	// TODO use one of the registered domains
+	//var indexUrl = "https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/index"
+  var port = (state.config.ipc && state.config.ipc.port || state._ipc.port || undefined);
+	var indexUrl = "http://localhost:" + port + "/index";
+	res.headers.set("Link", "Link: <" + indexUrl + ">;rel=\"index\"");
+	res.headers.set("Pragma", "no-cache");
+  //res.headers.set("Strict-Transport-Security", "max-age=604800");
+  res.headers.set("X-Frame-Options", "DENY");
+
+  res.end("");
+};
+controllers.newAccount = function (req, res) {
+	controllers._requireNonce(req, res, function () {
+		res.statusCode = 500;
+		res.end("not implemented yet");
+	});
+};
 
 function jsonEggspress(req, res, next) {
   /*
@@ -438,7 +484,7 @@ function jwtEggspress(req, res, next) {
 }
 
 function verifyJws(jwk, jws) {
-  return require('keypairs').export({ jwk: jwk }).then(function (pem) {
+  return keypairs.export({ jwk: jwk }).then(function (pem) {
     var alg = 'SHA' + jws.header.alg.replace(/[^\d]+/i, '');
     var sig = ecdsaAsn1SigToJwtSig(jws.header.alg, jws.signature);
     return require('crypto')
@@ -799,6 +845,16 @@ function handleApi() {
   }
 
   // TODO turn strings into regexes to match beginnings
+	app.use('/acme', function acmeCors(req, res, next) {
+		// Taken from New-Nonce
+		res.headers.set("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Content-Type");
+		res.headers.set("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
+		res.headers.set("Access-Control-Expose-Headers", "Link, Replay-Nonce, Location");
+		res.headers.set("Access-Control-Max-Age", "86400");
+		next();
+	});
+  app.use('/acme/new-nonce', controllers.newNonce);
+  app.use('/acme/new-acct', controllers.newAccount);
   app.use(/\b(relay)\b/, controllers.relay);
   app.get(/\b(config)\b/, getConfigOnly);
   app.use(/\b(init|config)\b/, initOrConfig);
@@ -1374,36 +1430,69 @@ state.net = state.net || {
   }
 };
 
+var jwks = [];
 var token;
 var tokenname = "access_token.jwt";
-// backwards-compatibility shim
 try {
+  // backwards-compatibility shim
   var tokenpath = path.join(path.dirname(state._confpath), 'access_token.txt');
   token = fs.readFileSync(tokenpath, 'ascii').trim();
   keystore.set(tokenname, token).then(onKeystore).catch(function (err) {
     console.error('keystore failure:');
     console.error(err);
   });
-} catch(e) {
-  onKeystore();
-}
-var jwks = [];
+} catch(e) { onKeystore(); }
 function onKeystore() {
   return keystore.all().then(function (list) {
+    var keyext = '.key.jwk.json';
+    var pubext = '.pub.jwk.json';
+    var key;
     list.forEach(function (el) {
+      // find key
+      if (keyext === el.account.slice(-keyext.length)
+        && el.password.kty && el.password.kid) {
+        key = el.password;
+        return;
+      }
+
+      // find token
       if (tokenname === el.account) {
         token = el.password;
         return;
       }
-      // these are secret because just adding the
-      // willy-nilly to the fs can allow arbitrary tokens
-      if (/\.pub\.jwk\.json$/.test(el.account)) {
+
+      // find trusted public keys
+      // (if we sign these we could probably just store them to the fs,
+      // but we do want some way to know that they weren't just willy-nilly
+      // added to the fs my any old program)
+      if (pubext === el.account.slice(-pubext.length)) {
         // pre-parsed
         jwks.push(el.password);
         return;
       }
+
+      console.log("unrecognized password: %s", el.account);
+    });
+
+    if (key) {
+      state.key = key;
+      state.pub = keypairs.neuter({ jwk: key });
+      fs.readFile(confpath, 'utf8', parseConfig);
+      return;
+    }
+
+    return keypairs.generate().then(function (pair) {
+      var jwk = pair.private;
+      return keypairs.thumbprint({ jwk: jwk }).then(function (kid) {
+        jwk.kid = kid;
+        return keystore.set(kid + keyext, jwk).then(function () {
+          var size = (jwk.crv || Buffer.from(jwk.n, 'base64').byteLength * 8);
+          console.info("Generated new %s %s private key with thumbprint %s", jwk.kty, size, kid);
+          state.key = jwk;
+          fs.readFile(confpath, 'utf8', parseConfig);
+        });
+      });
     });
-    fs.readFile(confpath, 'utf8', parseConfig);
   });
 }
 }());
@@ -1437,7 +1526,11 @@ function ecdsaAsn1SigToJwtSig(alg, b64sig) {
   , Buffer.from([0x02, s.byteLength]), s
   ]);
 
-  return buf.toString('base64')
+  return toUrlSafe(buf.toString('base64'));
+}
+
+function toUrlSafe(b64) {
+  return b64
     .replace(/-/g, '+')
     .replace(/_/g, '/')
     .replace(/=/g, '')