We need solid alternatives for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. A lot of critical European corporations rely on those services, witch are one EO away from blocking their European customers.
Sure, but that does not seem like a big problem to me. An SSL certificate provider is not something too complicated to setup, nor something that requires large infrastructure.
I guess that if it has to be a public good that could be accomplished with some 200K €/year or something like that.
Let’s Encrypt afaik just makes use of the ACME protocol. There are already ACME providers out there to be used. I know because I switched from Cloudflare SSL to one, and deliberately avoided using Let’sEncrypt instead.
We especially need a European alternative for let’s encrypt. Almost all websites, web applications and APIs rely on it.
We need solid alternatives for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. A lot of critical European corporations rely on those services, witch are one EO away from blocking their European customers.
Sure, but that does not seem like a big problem to me. An SSL certificate provider is not something too complicated to setup, nor something that requires large infrastructure. I guess that if it has to be a public good that could be accomplished with some 200K €/year or something like that.
I agree, but if there’s no alternative now, let’s encrypt could be used to bring most of the internet down in an instant.
Not really, if disrupted it would just bring down SSL encryption, which wile important it is not critical for the services to work.
Besides, if the block perdured more than a few days, people would switch quickly, I guess within a week, to other services.
It is not something I’m too worried about.
Let’s Encrypt afaik just makes use of the ACME protocol. There are already ACME providers out there to be used. I know because I switched from Cloudflare SSL to one, and deliberately avoided using Let’sEncrypt instead.
https://acmeclients.com/certificate-authorities/ https://european-alternatives.eu/category/acme-ssl-certificate-providers