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Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage by residents of US-sanctioned countries [pdf] (letsencrypt.org)

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How about we build a service that ignores the US sanctions and instead honours the United Nations sanctions?

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's much easier said than done. Anyone can start a new Certificate Authority but for it to be useful internationally it (its public key) needs to be built-in to (trusted by) all of the popular web browsers, the largest of which are all controlled by US companies.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 points 2 weeks ago

While that's absolutely a consideration, it's hardly an insurmountable issue.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Would that change the list of sanctioned countries meaningfully?

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes. It would be by global consensus rather than at the whim of an individual.

Here's the latest list I could find, and they're clearly not the same.

https://www.sanctionscanner.com/blog/list-of-sanctioned-countries-by-ofac-un-and-eu-2025-1103