Cloudflare issues a broken SSL certificate for me

What is the name of the domain?

*.your-mon.com

What is the error message?

ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

What is the issue you’re encountering

Universal Edge Certificates issued by Google since July 24th are broken. Websites visitors report ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH error in Google Chrome and similar errors in other browsers on the devices where the browser can not be updated.

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

This was a wide known problem with Let’s Encrypt Certificates at Cloudflare proxy (any Let’s Encrypt certificates generated at the origin server were not affected) that Cloudflare used shitty ECDSA ciphers instead of widely supported RSA and the only step to fix this bug was manually switching Certificate Authority from lets_encrypt to google (only available via API /ssl/universal/settings request). After latest renewal of the certificate the Google certificate also uses ECDSA SHA256 instead of RSA SHA256 without any possibility to switch it.

Was the site working with SSL prior to adding it to Cloudflare?

Yes

What is the current SSL/TLS setting?

Full (strict)

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

Add the domain
Enable Cloudflare proxy
Create 2 Edge Certificates - Google (Universal) as Primary and Let’s Encrypt as Backup (not vice versa)
Before July 24th this configuration worked.

Are you on a Free plan? If so, see…

According to the history, this text was recently removed so I assume GTS is now ECDSA only on free plans…
“Certificates issued from Google Trust Services will only receive an RSA certificate. In the next few months, Cloudflare will add support for ECDSA certificates from Google Trust Services.”

Why Cloudflare did not announce significant changes?
Yes, Free plan. Advanced cerificate manager is not the solution since $10 monthly costs more then VPS that I use for my website.

RSA looks much better then ECDSA, why Cloudflare do these changes? I believe they should give all users the possibility to choose. Like drop-down list in the dashboard (not tricks with API-based change of preferred and backup certificate vendors)

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