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Let's Encrypt (along with the coauthors of https://abetterinternet.net/documents/letsencryptCCS2019.pdf and many other contributors). Now the world's largest public certificate authority!

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You win. I'm only the co-founder of Digitalocean. I tip my hat to one of the giants we all stand on the shoulders of.

And yours is what I run my business on. Thank you!

The Let's Encrypt team was a large group effort across three organizations, plus a fourth organization that was spun off to develop and run it, and I in turn tip my hat to all of my colleagues. :-)

(Including Peter Eckersley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Eckersley_(computer_scie... who passed away earlier this fall at just 43.)

I refused to use certificates for my own projects as it was too complicated and expensive, until LE came along. Thank you!

Just to say thank you for Let's Encrypt - it's saved my bacon on at least a dozen times in the past six months alone.

Let's Encrypt is incredible. Thank you!

I built a WordPress plugin that helps you to generate free SSL certificate using Lets Encrypt. At it’s peak, it was being actively used by 50,000+ [https://wordpress.org/plugins/ssl-zen/]

I think we all owe you, your co-authors, and the sponsors a big thanks.

Thank you so much for this! I use it on my personal site and it was as simple as configuring a few cron jobs!

You are doing the lords work. Great job!!!

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