Apr 15, 2022 07:00:00

Let's Encrypt, which issues SSL certificates for free, receives the 'Levchin Award' for its contribution to encryption in the real world.

On April 13, 2022,

Let's Encrypt , a non-profit organization that issues SSL certificates for the SSL / TLS protocol, announced that it was awarded the 'Levtin Award' for its significant contribution to real-world encryption. bottom.

Let's Encrypt Receives the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography --Let's Encrypt
https://letsencrypt.org/2022/04/13/receiving-the-levchin-prize.html

Let's Encrypt is a non-profit organization that issues certificates for free. It features an all-automated publishing process and has served 260 million websites since its launch in 2016 with support from the

Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation .

This time, Let's Encrypt won the award established by PayPal co-founder Max Levtin. In honor of recent advances that have had a major impact on the practice of cryptography and its use in real-world systems, up to two awards are awarded each year, each with a prize of $ 10,000. Awarded. In recent years, Firefox Chief Technology Officer Eric Rescola has been awarded.

Josh Earth, Executive Director of Let's Encrypt, said on the award: 'Today, there are only 11 engineers working on Let's Encrypt, and a small team handles funding, communication and management tasks. The team is 10. We aim to serve 100 million websites, and when that day comes, the team will grow, but not so many members, because efficiency is important to us, 'said the statement.

He goes on to say, 'The inside of Let's Encrypt is quite complex, but users try to avoid that complexity as much as possible. Ideally, it's a fully automated background task that users forget. I can't be any more proud of what our team has done, 'said Earth.