&gt;People who have no idea how to add certs are also unlikely to know how to login to their web server using SSH or how to install a package.<p>You&#x27;d be surprised I think.<p>&gt;They would probably like to learn how to configure something like SSL.<p>I think you&#x27;d be surprised again. It&#x27;s not even always about aptitude–quite often it&#x27;s just laziness. The reason that many of these people aren&#x27;t encrypting today is because they don&#x27;t want to invest the time and effort. &quot;My copy-pasted openssl commands didn&#x27;t work? Eff this.&quot;<p>Operations is as much a mindset as it is a skill. Some developers have it, some don&#x27;t.