did not Peter Ecersley (Peter eCksley ), one of the founders of the non -commercial certificate of the LET’s Encrypt, controlled community and providing certificates for free of all. Peter was a member of the board of directors of the non -profit organization ISRG (Internet Security Research Group), which is the founder of the LET’s ENCRYPT project, and worked for a long time in the EFF human rights organization (Electronic Frontier Foundation). The idea promoted by Peter to ensure encryption on the entire Internet, providing free certificates to all sites, many seemed unrealized, but the created project Let’s Encrypt showed the opposite. In addition to Let’s Encrypt, Peter is known as the founder of many initiatives, network neutrality and ethical artificial artic intelligence, as well as a creator of projects such as Privacy Badger, Certbot, HTTPS EVERYWHERE, SSL Observator and Panopticlick.
Last week, Peter got to the hospital in which cancer was diagnosed. The tumor was removed, but Peter’s condition worsened sharply due to the complications that arose after the operation. On Friday night, despite resuscitation measures, Peter suddenly died at the age of 43.