Fair enough, David. I will consider doing just that.
I was attracted to this thread by googling site:letsencrypt.org justify 100%. I too had found the documentation extremely frustrating. After reading almost entirety of this very long thread, and skimming the rest, I reached some conclusions about the whole issue that I may expound on in another thread.
[quote="david7364, post:138, topic:15724"]I am very curious about why you changed your mind about the value of secure websites. While I do not know the official reasoning behind wanting the web 100% secure,
I think that one motivation is spamming/malware/viruses. When the Web is 100% secure (including all Internet services, presumably), then there will be very few places for spammers and malicious people to hide or to work.
How frustrating it will be for people who drive around in a van sniffing packets from homes and businesses when all the content they will see is encrypted? And similarly for people who scrape websites for email addresses, put viruses into sites that use WordPress, etc. Anyway, that might be the hope.
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Actually, it will accomplish virtually none of that. HTTPS (TLS/SSL) does absolutely nothing to protect a web site. All it does is establish a (hopefully) secure communication channel between a client agent and a server agent. Sniffing packets of an http channel offers little of value since those packets are easily obtained using an http browser. (My point about the http sites)