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PKI Cryptography, Digital Signatures, Digital
Certificates, and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
provide the authentication,
data integrity and privacy necessary to perform online transactions securely and
confidently and form a Trust
Infrastructure.
There are two strengths of SSL available, 40-bit and 128-bit.
128-bit encryption
is 3 X 1026 stronger
than 40-bit encryption.
Using
today's most powerful supercomputers it would
take over a trillion years to crack a 128-bit encrypted message.
By comparison, it is
estimated that the creation of the universe (The Big Bang) occurred only 12 billion
years ago.
Transactions
protected by 128-bit
encryption are not vulnerable to eavesdropping or interception. Banks trust and use 128-bit SSL
protection for online banking.
Going beyond SSL here are many other technologies
that can be employed to address security
issues. For instance, a VPN's (Virtual Private Networks)
and Firewalls can secure data and internet communications between computers, and
Biometric Authentication can
significantly enhance confidence in user identity. More
information on internet security can be found at Verisign,
Ethentica and RSA.
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