ISRG has been posting Legal Transparency reports on April 1 and October 1 each year, until this year. The report on the second half of 2023 was posted on April 3, and it's now October 4 and it doesn't look like the report for the first half of 2024 is posted yet.
I know it's been a particularly busy time for Let's Encrypt, between them dealing with reworking how their rate limits work internally and needing to roll that back, plus dealing with an Incident. And I'm sure they do plenty more behind the scenes that I'm not aware of.
Just curious when the newest transparency report is expected, and if recent delays in posting them should be worrying at all. Thanks!
We made some changes to how the report is structured in order to provide greater clarity, and it took us a few days longer than intended to finish up. I plan to have it published by the end of today.
Thank you! I'm mainly just watching for the canary that "we have never received a request or demand of any kind, formal or informal from any government agency anywhere in the world, that ISRG include a back door, specialized access, or any other deliberate weakness in Let's Encrypt". (While I'm aware that there's not much case law around whether LE could be forced to leave it in if it were no longer true despite their wishes, certainly if the text disappeared or significantly changed it would be good to know.)
Though if the numbers in the table suddenly increased significantly, that would certainly be interesting too.
In the future, if delayed it might be nice to post a statement to that effect by the expected publish date (even just a forum post), just so we don't have to wonder if Government Agents were, uh, persuading ISRG in some way.
And thanks again for making the Internet a better place!
I think we previously discussed on another thread warrant canaries being illegal in the US.
"Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment Act 1995" was probably the first, making it illegal to "disclose information about the existence or non-existence" of Interception Warrants"
