Founded | May 24, 2013 |
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Founders | Josh Aas, Eric Rescorla |
Type | 501(c)(3) non-profit organization |
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Registration no. | C3569614 |
Legal status | Active |
Focus | Internet Security |
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Global |
Mission | "to reduce financial, technological, and education barriers to secure communication over the Internet." |
Website | letsencrypt |
The Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) is a California public-benefit corporation which focuses on Internet security.
Let's Encrypt—its first major initiative—aims to make Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates available for free in an automated fashion.
Josh Aas, of Mozilla, serves as the group's executive director and board chair. The board also contains individuals from Akamai, Cisco, University of Michigan, Mozilla, Stanford Law School, CoreOS, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.