The mere service of creating certificates isn't an issue - you can do that yourself. I did before Let's Encrypt existed.
The problem is that you need to use a service that is authorized by an authority trusted by major browsers - and all of the major browsers have strong US ties. So even if you could replace Let's Encrypt as such with a service that, in itself, isn't US-based, it wouldn't really solve the problem of being dependent on US-based entities.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Matthew Skala
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •The mere service of creating certificates isn't an issue - you can do that yourself. I did before Let's Encrypt existed.
The problem is that you need to use a service that is authorized by an authority trusted by major browsers - and all of the major browsers have strong US ties. So even if you could replace Let's Encrypt as such with a service that, in itself, isn't US-based, it wouldn't really solve the problem of being dependent on US-based entities.
Jonathan Lamothe
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