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by RKearney 3379 days ago
> 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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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.