Dear Let's Encrypt Subscriber:
We've updated our Subscriber Agreement, effective September 21, 2022. This is the
agreement that governs the relationship between you and ISRG with regards to your
acquisition and use of SSL/TLS digital certificates issued by ISRG (via Let's
Encrypt). You don't need to take any action to continue to use the Let's Encrypt
service but we encourage you to review the new agreement.
The main updates are: we now link to instructions on choosing a revocation reason if you
revoke a certificate. This is a requirement for Subscriber Agreements from all Certificate
Authorities as of this year. Also, we've removed unneeded capitalization, removed a
section that is redundant with our Certificate Policy (CP), and tweaked the wording of the
requirement to "assure" control of your private key so it matches the Baseline
Requirements (BRs).
You can find the updated agreement (v1.3), along with a document that shows the
differences between the previous and current agreement and the full text of the previous
agreement here:
https://letsencrypt.org/repository/
If you have any questions about the new agreement, please ask on our community forums:
https://community.letsencrypt.org/
Let's Encrypt is a free service because we want to make the Web more secure and
privacy-respecting for everyone. We're able to operate as a nonprofit thanks to
corporate sponsorships and donations. Please consider joining our sponsorship program:
https://www.abetterinternet.org/sponsor/
Or donate now during our summer fundraising campaign to support this service (and get neat
Let's Encrypt apparel!).
https://letsencrypt.org/donate/
Thank you,
The Let's Encrypt Team