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mrweaselyesterday at 7:09 PM2 repliesview on HN

This should be one of those things that should be an quick EU win. Running Let's Encrypt is $3-4mill a year, the EU probably uses that on pencils.

The EU could easily bootstrap a Let's Encrypt competitor if it truly cared about removing dependencies on US based entities.


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zajio1amyesterday at 7:57 PM

Yes, but EU would have to convince Google and Apple to get a new root certificate to browsers.

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xxporyesterday at 7:50 PM

Do you really think the EU wants to sign up for PR that’s essentially “the US is being too mean to Russia” right now?

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