Eric is the former Chief Technology Officer, Firefox, at Mozilla, where he was responsible for setting the overall technical strategy for the Firefox browser. He has contributed extensively to many of the core security protocols used in the Internet, including TLS, DTLS, WebRTC, ACME, and QUIC. He was editor of TLS 1.3 and co-editor of the core IETF WebRTC specification (JSEP) as well as serving as Security Area Director for the IETF and on the Internet Architecture Board. He was a co-founder of Let’s Encrypt, a free and automated certificate authority that now issues more than a million certificates a day, and helped HTTPS grow from around 30% of the Web to over 90%.
Eric Rescorla
