Does Let’s Encrypt issue certificates for ccTLD domains of US sanctioned countries? Most of the CAs in the industry refuse to issue certificates for US sanctioned countries (e.g. .ir is ccTLD for Iran and there is only a handful of issuers who accept .ir domains.) What about Let’s Encrypt? Do you …

i assume as they operate a CA, they’d have to follow similar rules too

We’re talking about this topic in the hope that the sanctions will not be an obstacle for providing certificates globally. Unfortunately, I don’t have anything definitive to say yet.

We are not planning to restrict issuance to any countries/ccTLDs as a whole. We will, however, be restricting issuance to various government owned and operated domains for the following five countries: Iran Sudan North Korea Cuba Syria This policy is based on an analysis of applicable U.S. laws a…

Really, Cuba is still on the list these days?

To note, General License D-1 Annex 11 provides authorization for export of SSL Certificate services to Iran, and GL D-1 §6, entitled “Publicly available, no cost services and software to the Government of Iran,” authorizes such items to Iranian government entities provided it is offered at no cost […

I think the relevant document is (2) because even LE provide an service we talk about crypto stuff and RSA2048 is equal to an symmetric cipher >64bit. So signing an CSR with an RSA key with an minimum length >=2048 bit RSA mean you support that this individual or organization from an sanctioned co…

I think this could be an question even tricky to answer for lawyers and definitely not as easy as to say it is free of fee. You should remember that crypto stuff is "officially" as strict export controlled as war weapons. Cryptography items are regulated as dual use items under the EAR, not as st…

Hello everyone I am freelancer developer and live in an Iran. I’ll work on a personal startup with subject of font and Webfont. my Domain is font-store.ir I read all the conversations you’ve got. But I still do not understand. Can I use it or not. please help me thanks.

As josh said if you are not government owned (or related) their should be no problem. [image] josh: We are not planning to restrict issuance to any countries/ccTLDs as a whole. We will, however, be restricting issuance to various government owned and operated domains for the following five cou…

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josh September 25, 2015, 2:29pm 6

Yes. Some restrictions on Cuba have relaxed, others are still in place.

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