# Academic paper on Let's Encrypt at ACM CCS '19

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/academic-paper-on-lets-encrypt-at-acm-ccs-19/106160>\
**Category:** Praise\
**Created:** [November 13, 2019, 1:22am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/academic-paper-on-lets-encrypt-at-acm-ccs-19/106160 "2019-11-13T01:22:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![schoen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/schoen/32/79_2.png) [@schoen](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/schoen)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 1:22am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/academic-paper-on-lets-encrypt-at-acm-ccs-19/106160/1 "2019-11-13T01:22:27Z")

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A new academic paper “Let’s Encrypt: An Automated Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web” (by @josh @pde @jhalderm @jsha @jdkasten @schoen @bmw and five of our colleagues who aren’t members of this forum) is being presented on November 13 in London 🇬🇧 at the ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security.

[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3363192](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3363192)

This paper describes the history and impact of Let’s Encrypt in great detail, and is another reminder that we have a lot to be proud of about this project.

Thanks to our coauthors and everyone who’s contributed to the Let’s Encrypt project and to this paper in some way!

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**Author:** ![schoen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/schoen/32/79_2.png) [@schoen](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/schoen)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 1:29am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/academic-paper-on-lets-encrypt-at-acm-ccs-19/106160/2 "2019-11-13T01:29:13Z")

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By the way, there’s another paper about Let’s Encrypt and Certbot (not by the projects’ creators) being presented at the same conference

[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3363220](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3363220)

This paper has some very nice things to say about the impact of Certbot for users who are new to setting up certificates.

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**Author:** ![hjacquemin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/hjacquemin/32/35083_2.png) [@hjacquemin](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/hjacquemin)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 8:29am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/academic-paper-on-lets-encrypt-at-acm-ccs-19/106160/3 "2019-11-13T08:29:57Z")

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Thanks for sharing ! I’m actually writting on LE/ACME for my master’s thesis I will have some new doc to study !

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**Author:** ![schoen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/schoen/32/79_2.png) [@schoen](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/schoen)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 8:30am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/academic-paper-on-lets-encrypt-at-acm-ccs-19/106160/4 "2019-12-13T08:30:05Z")

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