Shared certificates cannot be revoked by one owner
Certificates with several names cannot be revoked by an owner who controls only one of the names.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
8 public reports · first reported 30 August 2026 · last reported 1 September 2026
What's going wrong
On Let's Encrypt community forums, people report that a certificate covering several domain names can only be revoked when control of every name is proven, so an owner of just one name is stuck when that name's key is compromised.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
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