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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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LE is not the only Provider of free ACME-Issued certificates and some of the alternatives are even based in the EU.
@Saupreiss @EUCommission @letsencrypt @nlnet These folks? They seem very commercial. What’s to stop them offering the free certs tomorrow? There’s value in having a noncommercial EU alternative funded with taxpayer money.
ZeroSSL is also around (Austrian company).
But yes, indeed: They’re Both commercial, so not complete replacements. Still better than a monoculture under US jurisdiction.
@Saupreiss @EUCommission @letsencrypt @nlnet Indeed. But nothing I would base a future system (e.g., the Small Web) on especially when there is a noncommercial alternative (I have no choice but to go commercial right now when it comes to DNS and VPS but the idea is to abstract that away as much as possible by supporting multiple. Easier said than done without standards but I guess that’s where it differs with ACME so, who knows, it might be an idea to support them. But still, we have an opportunity to build a not-for-profit EU ACME certificate provider and we should take it.) :)
Of course. And with commercial, I envy rather things like Cooperatives, a Model that I believe we all should be looking into when it comes to European Clouds.
(Not without tech examples; the German NIC is for example organized like that.)
@aral @Saupreiss
Haven't they been acquired by a Canadian company?