Senior Research Fellow
Eric Rescorla is a Senior Research Fellow at the Knight-Georgetown Institute. His research with KGI focuses on the intersection of internet technologies with policy, working across our projects on platform governance and competition.
Eric is the former Chief Technology Officer, Firefox, at Mozilla, where he was responsible for setting the overall technical strategy for the Firefox browser. Eric 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 the most recent version of TLS, TLS 1.3, for which he won the Levchin Prize for Applied Cryptography in 2019. He was a co-founder of Let’s Encrypt, a free and automated certificate authority that now issues more than five million certificates a day, and helped HTTPS grow from around 30% of the Web to over 90%.
Most recently, he served as Chief Technologist for the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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A new report by the Knight-Georgetown Institute shows how the US government’s proposed Google Chrome divestiture is technically feasible. The in-depth engineering assessment shows how an independent Chrome browser can thrive outside of Google and compete with Chrome’s major rivals.
