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Letsencrypt is under US jurisdiction. Is there a free-er alternative?
I know that I can simply make my own private certificate authority that only I and my family trust. But is there some public provider like letsencrypt that is in a free-er part of the world than the US?
Replying to @Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters CA (SSL) Certificate Authority DNS Domain Name Service/System ISP Internet Service Provider VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 4 acronyms.
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