INTERNET SECURITY RESEARCH GROUP

Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55418-0666 United States

Mission Statement

Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to reduce financial, technological, and education barriers to secure communications over the Internet. In the interest of bringing greater transparency and trust to the Internet, ISRG is a cooperative venture amongst a diverse group Web organizations from the public benefit, commercial, and educational sectors. The first initiative of ISRG is Let's Encrypt, a free, automated and open certificate authority, which provides digital certificates to websites so they enable HTTPS.

About This Cause

We believe we can set an example for how everyone interested in a more secure Internet can work together to provide digital infrastructure for the public’s benefit. To that end, ISRG developed Let's Encrypt, a free, automated and open certificate authority. Through Let's Encrypt, over six million websites have been encrypted, making communications on the Internet more secure for millions of Web users. The following principles underly our initiative: Free: Anyone who owns a domain can get a certificate validated for that domain at zero cost. Automatic: The entire enrollment process for certificates occurs painlessly during the server’s installation or configuration process, while renewal occurs automatically in the background. Secure: Let’s Encrypt serves as a platform for implementing modern security techniques and best practices. Transparent: All records of certificate issuance are available via public CT Logs. Open: The automated issuance and renewal protocol is an open standard and we make a great effort to use software that is open source. Cooperative: Much like the underlying Internet protocols themselves, Let’s Encrypt is a joint effort to benefit the entire community, beyond the control of any one organization.

INTERNET SECURITY RESEARCH GROUP
Po Box 18666 Pmb 57274
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55418-0666
United States
Phone 612-203-1156
Twitter @letsencrypt
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