This letter was originally published in our 2024 Annual Report.
The past year at ISRG has been a great one and I couldn’t be more proud of our staff, community, funders, and other partners that made it happen. Let’s Encrypt continues to thrive, serving more websites around the world than ever before with excellent security and stability. Our understanding of what it will take to make more privacy-preserving metrics more mainstream via our Divvi Up project is evolving in important ways.
But regretfully, Peter Eckersley ex Chief Scientist at EFF seemed too invested in browsers being the ultimate hard-wired authority of trust on behalf of browser users when it came to root certificate stores. Not even considering initiatives such as CA-Cert.
much prefer a solution that incorporates DNS TLSA resource records, rather than browser root certificate stores. That’s DANE, mm-ok? ;)
But regretfully, Peter Eckersley ex Chief Scientist at EFF seemed too invested in browsers being the ultimate hard-wired authority of trust on behalf of browser users when it came to root certificate stores. Not even considering initiatives such as CA-Cert.