It's a work in progress. Pull requests and Issues are welcomed.
Let's Clone
How to spread Certificate Authorities like Let's Encrypt
Why
Why do we need more open certificates authorities
Differences
Alternatives to Let's Encrypt could offer a different service:
- Be under another jurisdiction
- Have a different policy, for example regarding Phishing and Malware (https://letsencrypt.org/2015/10/29/phishing-and-malware.html)
- Could impose OCSP Must Staple to improve privacy and reduce costs (~152 FQDN represent 5.5B OCSP requests per day source)
- Could provide a fallback
- Could be open only for some tlds
- Could have no custom rate limits
- Could require the CAA DNS entry
- Could require the DNSSEC/HSTS+preload/...
- Support: could have a support in the local languages, and/or a paid one.
- Restrict possible challenges (ex. only DNS with DNSSEC)
How
Finances
| Category | Budget (per year) |
|---|---|
| Staffing | 2M USD |
| Hardware | 0.2M USD |
| Hosting | 0.2M USD |
| Auditing | 0.3M USD |
| Legal/Administrative | 0.3M USD |
| Total | 3M USD |