Re:Draft Let's Encrypt Subscriber Agreement
by schoen on Thursday May 21, 2015 @03:32PM
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Thanks for raising this concern.
One thing to emphasize about the PRI is that (perhaps differently from what you might be used to with some domain registrars or certificate authorities), the PRI is always optional for Let's Encrypt, and is used only in case of a problem such as losing your private key. You don't have to provide the PRI in order to get a cert, and this isn't a backdoor effort to require people to give a legal name in order to get a cert.
Having a working e-mail address is really valuable as a recovery mechanism -- but if you're very confident you won't need that and you don't want to give contact information, you need not do so.
One thing to emphasize about the PRI is that (perhaps differently from what you might be used to with some domain registrars or certificate authorities), the PRI is always optional for Let's Encrypt, and is used only in case of a problem such as losing your private key. You don't have to provide the PRI in order to get a cert, and this isn't a backdoor effort to require people to give a legal name in order to get a cert.
Having a working e-mail address is really valuable as a recovery mechanism -- but if you're very confident you won't need that and you don't want to give contact information, you need not do so.