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To ensure secure processing of transactions, ebiz uses Secure Server Certificates.
Web browsers can operate in "normal" mode and in "secure" mode. You can tell which mode your browser
is in by looking at the toolbar at the bottom of the browser window. If you see a broken key, an open padlock, or no key
or padlock, you are in normal mode. If the key is whole, or the padlock is closed, you are in "secure" mode.
When you surf the Net in "normal" mode, all of the information you type into your browser and all the information
the Web site sends to you are visible to eavesdroppers. When your browser is in "secure" mode it encrypts all the
information between itself and the server. Encrypted information looks like meaningless garbage to eavesdroppers, so your
personal information is secure.
A digital certificate containing the name of a company, Web site or individual, along with a cryptographic key is used
to encrypt information that must be sent to that individual. When your browser switches into secure mode, it asks the Web
site to present its certificate. The browser decides whether or not it trusts the certificate by looking at who issued it.
If the browser trusts the certificate (as it does those issued by Real Internet), then it will encrypt all communications with that
Web site, using the cryptographic key in the certificate.
Certificates can be used to make Web servers run in secure mode. They can also be used to sign and encrypt email messages
and to digitally sign software so that it will be "tamperproof".
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