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Let’s Encrypt at risk from Trump cuts to OTF: “Let’s Encrypt received around $800,000 in funding from the OTF”
Dear @EUCommission, get your heads out of your arses and let’s find @letsencrypt €1M/year (a rounding error in EU finances) and have them move to the EU.
If Let’s Encrypt is fucked, the web is fucked, and the Small Web is fucked too. So how about we don’t let that happen, yeah?
(In the meanwhile, if the Let’s Encrypt folks want to make a point about how essential they are, it might be an idea to refuse certificates to republican politicians. See how they like their donation systems breaking in real time…)
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The main problem is the bureaucracy associated for this. Another issue is the ownership control of the organisation (DEP Cybersecurity), the organisation needs to be controlled by EU citizen and located in EU.
@a @EUCommission @letsencrypt @nlnet None of that is insurmountable or even hard. Could be done in a week if the political will was there. It’s such a low hanging fruit.
@aral I really would like to share your optimism too.
If I can help in some ways, let me know. I was tracking the RFA budget withdraw and wondering how long OTF can survive without the funding.
@a @aral We don't need to move Let's Encrypt to the EU. We need to run a EU-based equivalent, and make it so that the infrastructure they run is easily replicated.
As this development clearly demonstrates, Let's Encrypt is a single point of failure. It was never a good idea. It was just a less bad idea than others.
And no, that's absolutely not suggesting they didn't do great work. This is about designing for resilience.
@aral @a @EUCommission @letsencrypt @nlnet While I agree, given the amount of "hey could you please put a back door in the chat app?" bullshit that European governments have once again regressed to recently, I'm not particularly hopeful about the "political will" part
@vanderZwan @aral @a @EUCommission @letsencrypt @nlnet US agencies can have back doors without even asking. How is that better?
@ptesarik
Well you're bringing up that comparison, not me, so I wouldn't know.
I'm just venting my frustration with the fact that yes, this could be easily fixed if not for the part where the political will among the majority of the elected (and extremely indirectly elected so practically unelected) politicians is missing.