1. You could provide insecure.nginx.org mirror for such people, make
nginx.org secure by default.

2. Modern server CPUs are already extremely energy efficient, TLS adds
negligible load. See https://istlsfastyet.com/



On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Valentin V. Bartenev <vbart@nginx.com>
wrote:

> On Sunday 21 August 2016 15:56:09 B.R. wrote:
> > It is surprising, since I remember Ilya Grigorik made a talk about TLS
> > during the first ever nginx conf in 2014:
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHxD-G0YjiU
> > https://istlsfastyet.com/
>
> It's just Ilya's opinion. You are free to agree or not.
>
>
> >
> > Thus, there is no reason for not going full-HTTPS in delivering Web
> pages.
>
> There are at least two reasons to not use HTTPS:
>
> 1. Provide easy access to information for people, who can't use encryption
> by political, legal, or technical reasons.
>
> 2. Don't waste resources on encryption, and thus save our planet.
>
> Please, don't be a TLS despot and let people to have a choice to use
> encryption
> or not.
>
> I think the situation when I can't download new version of OpenSSL using
> old
> version of OpenSSL is ridiculous, but they have configured openssl.org
> that way.
> How I supposed to use Internet then?
>
> wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev
>
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