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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@kkarhan@aral @EUCommission @nlnet call me weird but the developments of @letsencrypt vs. @cacert shows everything wrong with the way #SSL works.
We would've had a superior alternative to #LetsEncrypt if #GAFAMs weren't able or even allowed to cockblock #CACert by refusing to import it's ROOT-CA, whilst every commercial #CA gets their keys imported, no matter how shit they are or that they are essentially a hostile state actor!
@kkarhan @EUCommission @nlnet @letsencrypt @cacert Yes, I’ve been yelling from the top of my lungs that core Internet infrastructure like domain names, DNS, and TLS certificates should be public infrastructure for as long as I can remember. These are perfect examples of manufactured scarcity.
@kkarhan@aral @EUCommission @nlnet @letsencrypt @cacert not only that, I think we need self-governing namespaces similar to @torproject #OnionServices (even tho they are prone to #typosquatting-esque #sibil/#EvilTwin-style #phishing attacks!)...
Or a federated TLD/root system. Alternate roots exist, but nothing can achieve universality under the current Internet regime.
@kkarhan@infosec.space@gharbeia @aral @EUCommission I mean, #OpenNIC works as an alternative rootzone, and #NameDotSpace allegedly failed at sueing #ICANN for their monopoly.
As for #certificates, @cacert iron'd out that ages ago...
@kkarhan @aral
I had these two in mind as I wrote, but again, under current internet regime, they have no place, and forced to remain niche. But AFAIK, both alternate roots wanted in into the coalition, while I aspire for a [con]federate of roots.
I'm in @cacert since mid 2000s, and still have the record of the tragedy in my mailbox archive.