Dear Let's Encrypt Team, On the 24th of February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Since that time, thousands of people have been killed, millions of people have fled from war to other countries. Many Russian websites used for propaganda, government, phishing websites use certificates issued by Let's E…

[image] Help Ukrainians ISRG/Organizational C… [image] How will US/EU sanctions on Russia restrict certificate issuance? Issuance Policy I… [image] Ban russia and belarus Feature Requests A… […

Very good. None of these requests was approved - only once Josh Aas reacted, but his reply was not convincing. Thus, we'll keep posting again and again. Maybe we'll include a list of websites that use Let's Encrypt certificates to make our requests more reasonable. However, I believe people at Let's…

[image] d1f2e0f1: Thus, we'll keep posting again and again. Why? The facts haven't changed. Do you think the answer will?

So you're going to continue to spam a community that couldn't do anything about your request if they wanted to, and there's very good reason to not want to. Sounds like a troll.

[image] maxh: Why? The facts haven't changed. Do you think the answer will? Even russians change their mind. I believe it is all about arguments. The more reasonable arguments we'll provide (and we will) - the bigger change something will change. Being passive in this situation is the worst p…

[image] d1f2e0f1: Why keep issuing certificates for russian government and propaganda websites is a good thing? This is not supposed to happen. Those website are supposed to be banned. Please report those that are not. But those are not "all .ru websites" -- just a subset.

[image] Giuseppe C.: This is not supposed to happen. Those website are supposed to be banned. Please report those that are not. According to Josh Aas, such websites must be under sanctions and visible here https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/ - which is ridiculous.

Not strictly. They must belong to entities on that list, even if the domains aren't there directly.

If you can connect a domain to any entity on that list please bring it to LEs attention and they are generally taken care of promptly

[image] Giuseppe C.: Not strictly. They must belong to entities on that list, even if the domains aren't there directly. [image] ski192man: If you can connect a domain to any entity on that list please bring it to LEs attention and they are generally taken care of promptly None of russ…

Stop issuing certificates to Russian websites

Feature Requests

Nummer378 March 31, 2022, 1:53pm 2

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Help Ukrainians ISRG/Organizational	33	5847	March 4, 2022
Certificates ban for Russian government websites following the WAR in Ukraine Issuance Policy	37	8220	March 18, 2022
Misused certificates Issuance Policy	48	13284	September 7, 2023
Certbot Not Able to Issue Certificate - Site marked as unsafe Google Safe Browsing Help	29	9103	May 1, 2017
According to mcclatchydc.com Let's Encrypt revoqued and banned USAReally.com Issuance Policy	27	6539	January 7, 2019

Stop issuing certificates to Russian websites

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