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by warrenm 1492 days ago
> From a site reliability perspective HTTPS is still broken. Some 15yo OS can't access any site because it doesn't have the certificates or cipher suites

Sorry, but this argument doesn't hold water

And this coming from someone who supports systems still running NT 4

I have fallback rules enabled on all of my domains - TLS 1.3 is preferred, but older editions will be supported if the need arises (1.2, 1.1, and 1.0 (on a single domain))

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If your service must meet some strict certifications (e.g. PCI DSS), simply enabling old tls/ssl protocols for backward compatibility is not an option.
Doesn't that enable downgrade attacks?
When you need to support older OSes, does it matter?