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Let’s Encrypt has announced that its free security certificates are now trusted by all major browsers, bringing the organization’s mission to offer free HTTPS encryption to all sites one step closer to reality. As an open certificate authority run by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) and sponsored by the likes of Mozilla and Automattic, Let’s Encrypt aims to equip legitimate sites of every size and function with TLS/SSL certificates that help browsers identify them correctly and serve encrypted data so users’ browsing activity and transactions are safe from snooping. The lock icon in the address bar indicates that Stripe’s site…

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