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Security on the Internet is very important not only for the consumers
that buy products from e-commerce websites, but for the productivity
of the e-commerce websites. Hypothetically lets say we had an
e-commerce site (lets call it "Bob's Digital
Bakery"). We sell various digital software products
online, and our major customers use credit cards. If we don't
provide our customer's data with a high enough level of protection,
then we might be left with very few customers.
Often times,
security is the last thing on a web surfer's minds. Because of
the lack of face to face contact, that one usually has when you go to
the store in real life, the E-customer often forgets about the
possibilities of criminals listening in on the wires somewhere down
the line. One might think that the obvious solution to this
problem is encryption. Well my friends one is seriously
mistaken. Often times criminals can and have found other ways to
get around the "so-called" security that is provided by
encryption. Encryption only slows down criminals, it doesn't
stop them. Edgar Allan Poe once said, "It may roundly be asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot
resolve." This means that any type of encryption that
man can create, can be cracked by another man.
HTTPS is
called the Secure version of Http (Hyper text Transfer
Protocol). It uses an encryption algorithm to encrypt the data
being sent back and forth in webpages, and web sessions. One of
the more popular versions of the encryption used in Https is RSA, |
