Further upcoming changes at Let's Encrypt
Viktor Dukhovni via Exim-users <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Dec 2025 19:09:16 +1100
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[ Unmonitored security is an oxymoron. DO NOT deploy inbound DANE without timely monitoring of the correctness of your TLSA records: https://list.sys4.de/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/6723WDBLPYWSXAORTAJR7EPAIOFAP5N4/ ] Yet another Let's Encrypt-related announcement: further changes are due soon (by June 2026): As detailed in: <https://dnssec-stats.ant.isi.edu/~viktor/x3hosts.html> and: <https://letsencrypt.org/2025/05/14/ending-tls-client-authentication> <https://letsencrypt.org/2025/11/24/gen-y-hierarchy> TL;DR, if your CA is Let's Encrypt, and despite all the churn, for some reason you still prefer DANE-TA(2) TLSA records (2 1 1), over DANE-EE(3) (3 1 1), the TLSA records to publish are: - ECDSA (E7–E9, YE1–YE3): 2 1 1 cbbc559b44d524d6a132bdac672744da3407f12aae5d5f722c5f6c7913871c75 2 1 1 885bf0572252c6741dc9a52f5044487fef2a93b811cdedfad7624cc283b7cdd5 2 1 1 f1440a9b76e1e41e53a4cb461329bf6337b419726be513e42e19f1c691c5d4b2 2 1 1 6ebcefb4210b088654a38b03fea3d7d1c711b4fb1ddc363a45f9b1a4e53da01e 2 1 1 b3fb5d00e994cddf2cc9a4eea9f806bc5727e83cc0e4299bf956f2d524fe5376 2 1 1 a698a20824be04e47a1a33c4fa488731be92011f23a31e900e2ca26c9c2acfce - RSA (R12–R14, YR1–YR3): 2 1 1 919c0df7a787b597ed056ace654b1de9c0387acf349f73734a4fd7b58cf612a4 2 1 1 025490860b498ab73c6a12f27a49ad5fe230fafe3ac8f6112c9b7d0aad46941d 2 1 1 f1647a5ee3efac54c892e930584fe47979b7acd1c76c1271bca1c5076d869888 - 2 1 1 2e8307068b6db620e4a39d068b5dee5d6ef5788cbb2c0b6d23ead84fcc17178c 2 1 1 9d637b3d27a9e570d07607b9ccadb80a70915c7af72afce12841b1b1da825fd1 2 1 1 51aaa87d984b559ac69e929f888a022d832e089ff4dba0a412b5101bca4bc799 latest DANE survey stats show many MX hosts with outdated LE CA TLSA records: # | CA -----+----- 56 | X3 -- obsolete 10 | X4 -- obsolete 293 | R3 -- obsolete 102 | R4 -- obsolete 97 | E1 -- obsolete 80 | E2 -- obsolete 547 | E5 -- obsolete 548 | E6 -- obsolete 773 | E7 769 | E8 454 | E9 -- missing for many ECDSA users! 22 | YE1 -- Replaces E7–E9 by 2026-06 22 | YE2 -- Replaces E7–E9 by 2026-06 22 | YE3 -- Replaces E7–E9 by 2026-06 583 | R10 -- obsolete 616 | R11 -- obsolete 745 | R12 739 | R13 546 | R14 -- missing for many RSA users! 15 | YR1 -- Replaces R12–R14 by 2026-06 15 | YR2 -- Replaces R12–R14 by 2026-06 15 | YR3 -- Replaces R12–R14 by 2026-06 635 | ISRG X1 -- https://dnssec-stats.ant.isi.edu/~viktor/x3hosts.html#roots 292 | ISRG X2 -- https://dnssec-stats.ant.isi.edu/~viktor/x3hosts.html#roots 9 | ISRG YR -- https://dnssec-stats.ant.isi.edu/~viktor/x3hosts.html#roots 9 | ISRG YE -- https://dnssec-stats.ant.isi.edu/~viktor/x3hosts.html#roots And of course try to keep your MX hosts of the wall of shame: <https://dnssec-stats.ant.isi.edu/~viktor/x3hosts.html#mxhosts> -- Viktor. 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! -- ## subscription configuration (requires account): ## https://lists.exim.org/mailman3/postorius/lists/exim-users.lists.exim.org/ ## unsubscribe (doesn't require an account): ## [email protected] ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/