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Re:Announcing Free and Automated SSL Certs by RKearney on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @01:59AM (#13928772)
> Can we start dropping the SSL part now? Generally SSL v2/v3 is disabled so it is all over TLS anyway.

It's the same certificate though. So can we start calling them X.509 certs which is more proper than SSL or TLS cert?

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Re:Announcing Free and Automated SSL Certs by nailer on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @01:01PM (#13932638)
A bunch of folks have started calling the ones used for websites 'https certs' since 'https' actually appears in the browser UI and 'tls/ssl' is unwieldy.
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