We use the industry standard encryption protocol known as Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to keep your order information secure.
SSL is a technology that allows your customer's browser to communicate to your server via a secure, encrypted link, thus preserving the data's integrity and confidentiality. Your customers can rely on SSL for assurance that they are doing business with you and not a third party representing themselves as you. This is possible through special authentication process.
The SSL security protocol provides data encryption, server authentication, message integrity, and optional client authentication for a TCP/IP connection.
SSL uses a very stringent and efficient validation process. SSL comes in two strengths, 40-bit and 128-bit, which refer to the length of the "session key" generated by every encrypted transaction. The longer the key, the more difficult it is to break the encryption code.
SSL works by creating a temporary, shared "key" (sort of a digital code book) that lets only the computers on either end of a transmission scramble and unscramble information. To anyone between the sender and the receiver, including all the servers that may relay the message, the SSL transmission is indecipherable gibberish.
SSL makes on-line ordering just as secure as using your credit cards anywhere else.
Introduction to SSL |
