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is an excerpt from from the shopping cart vendor that
we use. It
is a bit technical, but should explain the system we
use and why we like it.
"Using
Catalog's built-in encryption, the order is encrypted
and the credit card details are twice encrypted. As
the entire order is encrypted, Catalog orders are more
secure than those using SSL. Within Catalog, for the
java encryption, we use Diffie-Hellman Public and Private
key encryption.
As
an expert on encryption, one of our founders wrote the
following:
Actinic
Catalog uses the Diffie-Hellman key exchange (which
is a public/private key or asymmetric key system) to
generate a 256 bit key. Then 128 bits of this key is
used in the symmetrical encryption protocol called SAFER.
A
128-bit symmetrical protocol is generally regarded as
not crackable. The only known approach is by brute force
and requires around 10^40 operations. If you could do
100 billion operations per second (10^11), then it would
still take 10^29 seconds or 10^21 years. That's
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. If you use a 256
bit symmetrical key, it's thermodynamically impossible
to crack (i.e there isn't enough energy in the universe).
However, 128 bits is considered by most people to be
safe."
Actinic
Catalog
What
that means is your data is safe with us!
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