Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
When you place an order through a online shopping cart protected with SSL, your
personal information is protected by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption
technology, the industry standard security protocol for encoding sensitive
information. SSL creates a shared digital key, which only lets the sender
and the receiver of the transmission scramble or unscramble information.
To everyone else, the SSL transmission is indecipherable.
Encryption is based on the mathematical scrambling and unscrambling of
messages. The type of encryption SSL uses assigns two keys - one is a
public key and one is a private key. When you send a message to the
business, you use the businesses public key to encrypt your message. Once
the business receives your encrypted message, the business uses the
private key to decode it. The same key cannot both encrypt and decrypt
information. So, information encrypted using the private key can only be
decrypted using the public key, and vice versa- ensuring the security of
your information.
