What Is It?
Encryption is
the process of scrambling a message so that only the intended audience
has access to the information. As more people share confidential data
and applications using the Internet, they have come to rely on commercially
available Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL)
encryption.
When an SSL handshake
occurs between a client and server, a level of encryption is determined
by the Web server, the client browser, the client operating system,
and the SSL
Certificate. Low-level encryption, 40 or 56 bits, is acceptable
for sites with low-value information. High-level encryption, at 128
bits, can calculate 288 times as many combinations as 40-bit encryption.
That’s over a trillion times a trillion times stronger.
How VeriSign
Can Help
If you are responsible
for making sure that data on your Web server is encrypted during transmission,
VeriSign can help with SSL Certificates. VeriSign (including our affiliates,
resellers, and subsidiaries) is the leading SSL provider with SGC-enabled
SSL Certificates that can provide true 128- or stronger encryption to
the most Web site visitors.
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