Learning from Let’s Encrypt’s 10 years of success

This is why Let’s Encrypt and the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) are so fascinating. There is no obvious reason they should’ve succeeded, yet 10 years in, ISRG’s Let’s Encrypt has issued more than one billion certificates to secure more than 360 million websites. It’s also likely that the nonprofit’s Prosimmo, a memory safety project, and Divvi Up, a privacy-preserving metrics system, will follow that pattern, even as many other foundations fail to deliver similar victories (OpenStack, anyone?).

To read this article in full, please click here