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 .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/Netflix/lemur.svg
     :target: https://travis-ci.org/Netflix/lemur
 
-Lemur manages SSL certificate creation. It provides a central portal for developers to issuer their own SSL certificates with 'sane' defaults.
+Lemur manages TLS certificate creation. It provides a central portal for developers to issue their own TLS certificates with 'sane' defaults.
 
 It works on CPython 2.7, 3.3, 3.4. We deploy on Ubuntu and develop on OS X.