Hello! The US is the enemy of democracy. If someone should be banned, then them.
Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]
401–404 of 404 posts
Re: Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]
#402Earlier quoted context omitted.
They already revoced certificates for some russian sites
any details on that? links to people reporting it?
max.ru — Russian messenger
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/why-issue-certificate-fo...
Re: Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]
#403Earlier quoted context omitted.
RISC-V Foundation did.. though they go out of their way to talk about it in terms that try not to piss anyone off.. > "Across 2018-2019, the RISC-V community has reflected on the geo-political landscape and we have heard concerns from around the world that investment in RISC-V must come with IP access continuity to ensure a long-term strategic investment. We first mentioned our intentions to move at the December 2018…
The RISC-V foundation and related companies also got a bunch of money from Europe. I am not so sure this was about leaving a repressive regime as much as chasing the European "homegrown computing" money.
I think a big part of it was the Chinese element as well - the RISC-V Swiss reorg happened at the end of the first Trump term when the US was making a lot of noise about banning Chinese investment in US companies and more greatly restricting IP - I'm sure their members were nervous about building a long-term plan with a lot of Chinese involvement.
Re: Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]
#404Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Let me introduce you to the phrase "I don't see a mechanism." I'm not familiar with this phrase, but I think I did a good job citing a comparable example in my original post.
> Those methods include covert measures to ensure NSA control over setting of international encryption standards, the use of supercomputers to break encryption with "brute force", Things that definitely don't happen. Those same encryption standards are used by the US military, and the international cryptography community can pretty readily rule out keyed backdoors. The thought that supercomputers could break Internet…
>Things that definitely don't happen.
Citation please? There's been documented instances of exactly that, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.