Podcast
Root Causes 242: Let's Encrypt Founder Peter Eckersley Passes


Hosted by
Tim Callan
Chief Compliance Officer
Jason Soroko
Fellow
Original broadcast date
September 16, 2022
Electronic Frontier Foundation member and Let's Encrypt co-founder Peter Eckersley passed away recently at a young age. In this episode we pay respect to Peter's memory and his many contributions, including ACME, Certbot, and Let's Encrypt.
Podcast Transcript
Lightly edited for flow and brevity.
Peter was an important member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation for a long time, and in particular, in the world of digital certificates, he is noteworthy for being one of the creators of Let’s Encrypt and a bunch of related technology services. And we all, I think we all know the importance that Let’s Encrypt has had on encryption and SSL Certificates.
And I think in the world of cybersecurity which as a topic has been around a long time and as a profession, it’s been around for a while, but certainly, I think the types of, the presences of people that we’ve had in this field for a while, we really, really feel the losses of people. Especially those who’ve gone way too young, like Peter Eckersley.

