>encrypted web traffic costs money for the certificate and for additional server hardware 1.) You can make and self sign your own cert. As another poster point

>encrypted web traffic costs money for the certificate and for additional server hardware 1.) You can make and self sign your own cert. As another poster pointed out, there's also distributed solutions. 2.) When we let standards that are going to be in-place for at least a decade be manipulated by the hardware costs at their inception, it's a bad standard.