What does SSL mean?
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. It’s an agreed upon format (a.k.a. protocol) for transmitting data or private documents between two devices (such as your home PC and our computer) over the Internet. SSL works by using a private key to encrypt (code/translate) the data that’s being transferred over the SSL connection. Both Netscape Navigator and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browsers use SSL, and many websites (including ours) use this protocol to obtain confidential information from their customers.
SSL is an acronym for Secure Sockets Layer. SSL protects transmissions over the World Wide Web from spectators by encrypting the data while it gets transmitted over the Internet. SSL works through a certificate that authenticates a certain domain. With this certificate, secure transmissions on the server are “certified” and valid. Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer support SSL, and many websites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers. Web pages that require an SSL connection start with https: instead of http: SSL makes purchasing online more secure than buying at a physical retail store. When you enter the secure connection to our e-commerce area, you are using SSL encryption. Whatever information you send is encrypted (garbled in a specific way that can be interpreted on the receiving end.) This information is transferred to a server that is not connected to the Net at all so that your personal data, including credit card numbe
