Securing Your Information With SSL

Short for Secure Sockets Layer, SSL is a protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL works by using a private key to encrypt data that is transferred over the SSL connection. All current browsers support SSL, and many Web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers. By convention, web pages that require an SSL connection start with "https:" instead of "http:".

If you are going to transact business through your web site, you will need to have SSL capability available through your web hosting service. Also, you will need to set up your web pages to implement SSL, and you may also need to provide your own digital certificate from one of the certificate authorities, such as Verisign or Thawte.

For an example of using SSL, we've set up a dummy login page that encrypts the transmission of the userid and password between your browser and our server to insure that nobody could steal that information while you are logging in to use our web site.