Patent ID: 8356333

Claim:
A method of indicating to a user that a networked site is authentic comprising: enabling encryption of user-customized information, the encrypted user-customized information being stored locally on an end-user device, and the user-customized information having been previously selected by a user of the end-user device; when said end-user device accesses the networked site, receiving from said end-user device a request to verify the authenticity of the networked site together with identity information about the networked site; verifying whether the networked site is authentic; and when the networked site is verified as authentic, enabling decryption of the encrypted user-customized information so that the user-customized information can be presented to the user on the end-user device, wherein enabling encryption of the user-customized information comprises: receiving at the verification server the user-customized information together with security information from the end-user device; determining at the verification server a set of encryption parameters including an encryption key; encrypting the user-customized information at the verification server based on the encryption parameters; and sending the encrypted user-customized information to the end-user device together with a subset of the encryption parameters, said subset not including said encryption key.