Let's Encrypt continues to be available to almost every vulnerable population in the world, including those that need it most. I say almost as I'm hesitant to speak in absolutes regarding a topic as complex as this.

Most of our sanctions-related blocks apply only to the governments of certain sanctioned countries, not their general population.

This subscriber agreement update was intended to better reflect our legal requirements. It does not reflect a major change in the service we provide. Our compliance program does evolve over time, and part of that is communicating about it better in our terms of service. It's clear from some of the comments here that we have more work to do to make that text more understandable, we'll work on that.

> That said, pretty sure this is stems from the insane US legal requirement to not export SSL technology to enemy countries. I'm sure some of y'all are old enough to remember when web browsers came in "international friendly" versions that supported 40 bit encryption, or "fancy secure" versions with 128 bit encryption.

It doesn't.