> That industry value would have surely multiplied Nope. The industry warning and devaluing unencrypted connections was enabled by low cost configuration and z

> That industry value would have surely multiplied Nope. The industry warning and devaluing unencrypted connections was enabled by low cost configuration and zero cost issuance. There is almost no chance that browser vendors would have proceeded with "deprecation" of unencrypted HTTP traffic without free issuers; the response from businesses would have been overwhelmingly negative.