It feels like just yesterday I was paying for certs, or worst, just running without.
Can't believe its been ten years.
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Can't believe its been ten years.
TLS is fairly computationally intensive - sure, not a big deal now because everyone is using superfast devices but try browsing the internet with a Pentium 4 or something. You won't be able to because there is no AES instruction set support accelerating the keyshake so it's hilariously slow.
It also encourages memoryholing old websites which aren't maintained - priceless knowledge is often lost because websites go down because no one is maintaining them. On my hard drive, I have a fair amount of stuff which I'm reasonably confident doesn't exist anywhere on the Internet anymore.... if my drives fail, that knowledge will be lost forever.
It is also a very centralised model - if I want to host a website, why do third parties need to issue a certificate for it just so people can connect to it?
It also discourages naive experimentation - sure, if you know how, you can MitM your own connection but for the not very technical but curious user, that's probably an insurmountable roadblock.
If the website really isn't maintained, then it's only a matter of time until the server is part of a botnet. Setting up LE for a simple site takes half an hour once.