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Internet Security Research Group

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Focus
  
Internet Security

Area served
  
Global

Founded
  
May 2013

Location
  
United States

Website
  
letsencrypt.org

Founders
  
Josh Aas, Eric Rescorla

Mission
  
"to reduce financial, technological, and education barriers to secure communication over the Internet."

Type of business
  
501(c)(3) non-profit organization

Similar
  
Electronic Frontier Foundation, Linux Foundation, Mozilla Foundation

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.

Board members

  • Josh Aas (Mozilla Foundation) — ISRG Executive Director
  • Stephen Ludin (Akamai Technologies)
  • Joe Hildebrand (Cisco Systems)
  • J. Alex Halderman (University of Michigan)
  • Laura Thomson (Mozilla)
  • Jennifer Granick (Stanford Law School)
  • Alex Polvi (CoreOS)
  • Peter Eckersley (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
  • Pascal Jaillon (OVH)
  • References

    Internet Security Research Group Wikipedia


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