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Re:WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all websites by teekert on Friday April 08, 2016 @03:19PM (#11457141)
Let's encrypt is great, but I'm still running into people that have Chrome on WinXP or even IE8. It's crazy, I know. They did promise to start supporting both o XP because it had something to do with an intermediate cert somewhere. They didn't deliver on that promise. I don't blame them.

By the way, the cert on Wordpress.com is issued by GoDaddy, all the examples I could come up with are also. Guess it's a roll out process.

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Re:WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all websites by joshmoz on Friday April 08, 2016 @03:44PM (#11457335)
Windows XP support was rolled out March 25 2016.

You can find more information about upcoming and completed features here:

https://letsencrypt.org/upcoming-features/

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Re:WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all websites by rjbwork on Friday April 08, 2016 @07:42PM (#11459017)
It also, ironically, broke a bunch IIS and Azure Web App hosted sites due to an incorrect intermediate being sent by the servers, with no recourse for new and renewing users at the moment...See https://github.com/sjkp/letsencrypt-siteextension/issues/42
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Re:WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all websites by haroldp on Friday April 08, 2016 @04:06PM (#11457496)
But that doesn't really help you if you are using SNI to host multiple sites on a single IP address, does it?
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Re:WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all websites by pfg on Friday April 08, 2016 @04:16PM (#11457570)
Internet Explorer doesn't support SNI on Windows XP, correct.

Let's Encrypt doesn't force you to use SNI, though. SNI is not something you "stick" on a certificate - it's a TLS extension which you don't have to use at all.

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Re:WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all websites by ran290 on Friday April 08, 2016 @03:29PM (#11457216)
They did: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/upcoming-intermediate-ch...
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