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I know that I can simply make my own private certificate authority that only I and my family trust. But is there some public provider like letsencrypt that is in a free-er part of the world than the US?

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[–] pdl@social.tchncs.de 23 points 2 days ago (20 children)

@Sibbo I do not see any problem with Letsencrypt. Any CA which is widely trusted has to follow the same rules. This rules are set up by the CA Browser Forum. Which metadata does LE collect? My server's IP address, domain and subdomain, mail address. These are logged in the CT logs. Every CA has to log all certificates in a public CT log. Regardless which CA I choose, these data are public. There are not any critical data or metadata that LE can collect.

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 24 points 2 days ago (17 children)

Letsencrypt can be directly forced to revoke certificates by the US. Organisations outside of the US are less vulnerable against that.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (14 children)

And ICAAN can hand your domain over to US law enforcement regardless of the TLD and your register.

Is that also part of your decision tree?

[–] pdl@social.tchncs.de 1 points 22 hours ago

@slazer2au @Sibbo The administration of domain names is not done by ICANN. ICANN is responsible for managing IP addresses, ports, AS numbers. There are local registries for the administration of domain names. My .de domains are administered by DENIC in Germany. .net and .com are administered by US companies. This domains eventually can be shutdown by US authorities.

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