INTERNET SECURITY

Cryptography does for the electronic world what locks, photo IDs, and seals do for the physical world. Through encryption technologies such as public-key/private-key systems--and applications of those systems such as digital certificates--it is now possible to absolutely, positively verify the source and recipient of electronic information while also maintaining privacy and confidentiality.

This site provides a secure encrypted electronic transmission channel between the customer's computer and our computer (secure server) when the customer provides a credit card or bank account number, at the request of the website shopping cart, for the online purchase of products or services.

Secure transactions on the internet are encrypted between your Internet Explorer, Netscape, WebTV™ and other browsers and our secure server. 

Microsoft, Netscape, and other companies want to provide 128-bit protection to customers worldwide, but are currently prevented from doing so by U.S. law. That's why the main version of Internet Explorer and Netscape normally downloaded  come with 40-bit encryption capabilities, which U.S. law does permit to distribute worldwide.  WebTV™ is sold in the U.S. with 128-bit protection.

How secure is 128-bit encryption? Consider this: In 1995, it took a French graduate student a little over a week to crack a message sent with the traditional 40-bit encryption, and he used a network of 112 computers to do it! Today, the US Defense Department might be able to do it in a matter of minutes, but at 128-bits, it would take the world's most sophisticated hardware and software something more than the age of the universe to decypher the encryption!

The 128-bit version of the browser gives you the highest level of protection possible whenever you use credit cards or make other financial or confidential transactions over the Internet. When you use the 128-bit version of the browser in a secured connection with a bank, brokerage house, online merchant, or anyone else who has 128-bit capabilities, the information in the exchange is scrambled into the toughest-to-crack code available in the industry today.

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