As a result, the internet provides a medium for doing business that is far more secure than traditional means. Consider an evening dining at your favorite restaurant or a shopping trip to your favorite store. When you hand your credit card over to the waiter or clerk, he records your credit card card number and it sits in a cash drawer where anyone's prying eyes can see. When you submit your credit card number on an internet form, it is digitally encoded and sent over phone and internet lines to the web server. Because internet transmissions are digitally encoded they can not be understood by just anybody.
Hackers are computer experts who understand how internet transmissions are encoded.
Our web server makes use of Secure Sockets which encrypt transmissions using RSA Encryption. Encrytped transmissions can only be decrypted by the sender and receiver. The RSA encryption scheme is so effective that it should take the world's fastest computers hundreds of years to break a single encryption key. There are several different web browsers. Some examples are Netscape, Internet Explorer, WebTV, Mosaic, CyberDog, and Lynx.