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Exactly: I believe that's actually the plan from browser-makers, that the "S" designates not whether you want to use encryption, but whether the encryption will be required to be trusted. We'll see what actually happens.

Going forward hopefully TLS 1.3 or a later version will be able to encrypt enough of the exchange that a passive sniffer can't necessarily tell between 2 or 3 - hopefully they won't be able to see the certificate, or there'll be a way to negotiate an anonymous DH as a minimum that an attacker cannot observe (without that in place right now, I've argued against aDH remaining in TLS 1.3).




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