{"id":36936,"date":"2022-09-05T15:04:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T19:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36936"},"modified":"2022-09-07T11:32:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T15:32:29","slug":"peter-eckersley-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/05\/peter-eckersley-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Eckersley, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community.letsencrypt.org\/t\/peter-eckersley-may-his-memory-be-a-blessing\/183854\">Seth Schoen<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=32700066\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/story\/22\/09\/05\/0241217\/peter-eckersley-co-creator-of-lets-encrypt-dies-at-43\">Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/community.letsencrypt.org\/t\/peter-eckersley-may-his-memory-be-a-blessing\/183854\"><p>I&rsquo;m devastated to report that Peter Eckersley (@pde), one of the original founders of Let&rsquo;s Encrypt, died earlier this evening at CPMC Davies Hospital in San Francisco.<\/p><p>Peter was the leader of EFF&rsquo;s contributions to Let&rsquo;s Encrypt and ACME over the course of several years during which these technologies turned from a wild idea into an important part of Internet infrastructure. He also took a lot of initiative in coalescing the EFF, Mozilla, and University of Michigan teams into a single team and a single project. He later served on the initial board of directors of the Internet Security Research Group.<\/p><p>You can find a very abbreviated version of this history in the <a href=\"https:\/\/jhalderm.com\/pub\/papers\/letsencrypt-ccs19.pdf\">Let&rsquo;s Encrypt paper<\/a>, to which Peter and I both contributed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/29\/daniel-kaminsky-rip\/\">Daniel Kaminsky, RIP<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Schoen (via Hacker News, Slashdot): I&rsquo;m devastated to report that Peter Eckersley (@pde), one of the original founders of Let&rsquo;s Encrypt, died earlier this evening at CPMC Davies Hospital in San Francisco.Peter was the leader of EFF&rsquo;s contributions to Let&rsquo;s Encrypt and ACME over the course of several years during which these technologies turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-09-05T19:04:36Z","apple_news_api_id":"3a9420a1-eb86-4247-b3d2-82aa2759110e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-09-07T15:32:31Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AOpQgoeuGQkez0oKqJ1kRDg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2120,208,48,581,96],"class_list":["post-36936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-lets-encrypt","tag-rip","tag-security","tag-ssltls","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36941,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36936\/revisions\/36941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}