Chapter 9. Securing Your Internet Transactions with SSL and Digital Certificates
Fear still keeps many people from making a purchase online. The fear might be that their credit card information will be stolen or their shopping habits will be monitored. The problem is that the fear is real. The explosive growth of the Internet over the past 10 years has created widespread dependence on communication protocols, which were not developed for privacy and security. The communication protocols of the Internet, known as Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), were designed to allow computers to share information, not hide it from each other. TCP/IP can basically be thought of as the language of the Internet. Whereas people in the U.S. ...
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