Public CA will not sign an internal enterprise sub-CA
Organisations want a public CA such as Let's Encrypt to sign their internal enterprise sub-CA, and the CA refuses.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
11 public reports · first reported 5 October 2026 · last reported 6 October 2026
What's going wrong
Administrators who run an internal Active Directory certificate authority ask whether a public authority can sign their subordinate CA, so internal machines trust it without a private root being distributed everywhere.
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