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Re:Let's Encrypt Launch Schedule by JoshTriplett on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @01:07PM (#9727268)
> But for me the biggest problem with adoption of SSL is still that every domain name needs it's unique IPv4 address, and all problems that come with that, not registering or paying for the SSL certificate.

Only if you care about IE on Windows XP (which is no longer supported and no longer gets security updates) or Android phones more than 4 years old (2.3 Gingerbread and older). SNI works fine on other devices.

Have you measured? Do you have numbers for how many users you have running one of those two environments?

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Re:Let's Encrypt Launch Schedule by warp on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @12:12AM (#9730025)
New phones are still being sold with Android 2.3 here [1] in Ecuador (which is ridiculous), so for some markets you do need to verify what your target audience uses before making assumptions like that.

[1] http://www.movistar.com.ec/tienda/Marcas/Huawei/Huawei-Y210/...

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Re:Let's Encrypt Launch Schedule by icebraining on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @03:38AM (#9730470)
What's depressing is that 2.3 already had an API that would use SNI, but they didn't update the stock browser to use it :|

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=12908#c2

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Re:Let's Encrypt Launch Schedule by JoshTriplett on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @11:23AM (#9732414)
That's exactly why I asked about measurement; just because such users exist doesn't mean they use your site, or buy anything from it.
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