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onedognight on Sept 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Switch to HTTPS Now, For Free

It's worse than you suggest. XP doesn't have the StartCom root cert unless the user has installed a manual root cert update.

eli on Sept 25, 2013 [–]

I think the root cert was added through Windows Update a to XP few years ago, so there's a decent chance boxes in the wild have.

SNI is still a no-go on XP though.

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