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2026-06-12 04:14 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/116731404722832495 Reminder that Let’s Encrypt is a wonderful miracle but also a single point of failure. Nobody’s stopping you from starting a local clone of Let’s Encrypt in your country. With technology like Certificate Transparency, it’s pretty safe to use whatever available certificate authority is available to folks anyway.

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@SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo 2026-06-12 11:19

@freddy@social.security.plumbing Nobody’s stopping you from starting a local clone of Let’s Encrypt in your country.Absolutely worng. Here's a list of people stopping you from starting a CA: * The CA Forum * European Telecommunications Standards Institute auditors * Every major browser developer * Every major OS developer * Your country's regulatory body

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