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“If everyone is going to use TLS, people need to trust their certificate authority, and the way to gain trust is through openness.”

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority developed by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). The ISRG is a non-profit whose mission is to reduce financial, technological, and education barriers to secure communication over the Internet.

Josh Aas is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the ISRG. He is also a Senior Technology Strategist at Mozilla.

Questions

• What is the Internet Research Security Group?
• What is a certificate authority?
• Prior to Let’s Encrypt, what were the steps to turn on https for a website?
• Why is it important to focus on security specifically at the transport layer?
• What are the major problems with modern network security?
• What types of malware and phishing attacks do you see the most these days?
• What are the bottlenecks to widespread adoption of lets encrypt?

Links

• • Transport Layer Security
  • Let’s Encrypt is Trusted
  • Hardware Security Module
  • We can’t let tech giants, like Facebook and Twitter, control our news values
  • Josh’s personal page

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