After reading this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/20/trump-ends-internet-access-china-iran-otf/
I saw that OTF sponsored letsencrypt generously. can letsencrypt continue to operate without funding from OTF ?
I'm thinking about the infrastructure costs.
Become a Sponsor - Internet Security Research Group (for sponsorship level costs)
I'm sure they will still float without fund from OTF
TIL ISRG added diamond tier for sponsorship
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Osiris
March 27, 2025, 7:58am
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"Only" 22 % of the funding comes from diamond and platinum sponsors, according to https://www.abetterinternet.org/documents/2024-ISRG-Annual-Report.pdf (page 42). And OTF is just one of the diamond sponsors. I wouldn't think this impacted Let's Encrypt in a disastrous way.
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wait: ISRG sponsorship page says it needs $500k per year to be diamond tier: how they got one with 800k over two years?
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Osiris
March 27, 2025, 10:45am
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For platinum there's also a reduced amount for multiple years, perhaps they also got a discount
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@Osiris can we get the stats from letsencrypt telemetrics how many US IPs use out of those 500 Million certificates ? I will give concrete data points to argue with the funding agencies ?
Osiris
March 29, 2025, 6:38pm
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I don't know as I'm not a Let's Encrypt staff member, just a volunteer on this Community.
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@josh Maybe you are the right person to ask ? If you can get the anonymized number of issued certs for ARIN region, then we can argue with policy makers ?
You might be better off contacting Let's Encrypt directly via email.
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9peppe
March 29, 2025, 8:41pm
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There might be some related data in Mozilla telemetry. I'm not sure what this probe tells us, tho.
Have fun?
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For what it is worth, various outlets are reporting that the OTF's funding is no longer terminated .
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