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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Kangnakamuyi for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com Sept. 4, Let's Encrypt is a popular certification authority (CA) that can help websites enable HTTPS for free, and hundreds of millions of websites are in use.

Peter Eckersley, one of the founders of the 43-year-old Let's Encrypt, died yesterday at CPMC Davies Hospital in San Francisco.

According to the website, Peter is the leader of EFF's contribution to Let's Encrypt and ACME, and in the past few years, these technologies have changed from a crazy idea to an important part of the Internet infrastructure. He has also taken a number of steps to merge teams from EFF, Mozilla and the University of Michigan into one team and one project. He later served on the initial board of directors of the Internet Security Research Group.

Peter, from Melbourne, Australia, is an avid road cyclist and espresso connoisseur known for his gorgeous fashion sense, appreciation of beautiful buildings and his ability to host parties and gather crowds. He has a doctorate from the University of Melbourne.

Peter's academic interests include economics and moral philosophy, and he has done active research in these areas, including proving that human values may not be systematized, so that he can give clear and consistent answers on what is best in each case. Among the founding members promised by Giving What We Can, Peter has pledged to donate 10 per cent of its income to charities.

At the end of his life, Peter focused his career on the morality and safety of artificial intelligence, and he founded the artificial Intelligence goals Institute to study the specific parallels between what he sees as possible surprising and unpopular outcomes and possible outcomes in the economy.

CTOnews.com learned that Let's Encrypt is a free, open, automated certification authority (CA) that aims to provide free digital certificates needed to enable HTTPS (SSL / TLS) for websites in as user-friendly manner as possible. The Let's Encrypt certificate is valid for 90 days, and website developers can use automated scripts to renew it free of charge.

The key principles of Let's Encrypt are:

Free: anyone who owns a domain name can use Let's Encrypt to obtain a trusted certificate for free.

Automation: software running on the server can interact directly with Let's Encrypt to easily obtain a certificate, configure it securely, and renew it automatically.

Security: Let's Encrypt will be a platform to promote the development of TLS security best practices, whether as a certification authority (CA) or by helping website operators properly protect their servers.

Transparency: all certificates issued or revoked will be publicly recorded for inspection by anyone.

Openness: automatic issuance and renewal agreements have been issued as open standards that others can adopt.

Willing to cooperate: like the underlying Internet protocol itself, Let's Encrypt is a joint effort to benefit the entire Internet community and is not under the control of any single organization.

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