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Shopping security
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Iomega pledges to make shopping on our online shop as safe as possible.
To do this, we protect you during the transaction by using the strongest data security available (SSL 128-bit encryption).
Once your transaction has been completed in this secure environment, your credit card details are not stored on Iomega web servers or those of our partners.
This is why even if we recognise you during your next visit, you will have to fill in your credit card details again. |
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What is "strong encryption"?
How do 128-bit SSL Global Server IDs protect transactions?
What Web browsers are compatible with 128-bit SSL Global Server IDs?
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What is "strong encryption"?
"Strong encryption" refers to the technology that the 128-bit SSL Global Server IDs included with Secure Site Pro and Commerce Site Pro solutions use to secure online communications. Global Server IDs enable the negotiation of SSL or TLS sessions using "strong" 128-bit RC2 or RC4 encryption.
SSL is the industry-standard method developed by Netscape Communications Corporation for protecting Web communications. The SSL security protocol provides data encryption, server authentication, message integrity, and optional client authentication for a TCP/IP connection. SSL comes in two strengths, 40-bit and 128-bit, which refer to the length of the "session key" generated by every encrypted transaction. The longer the key, the more difficult it is to break the encryption code. Any software with encryption features having key lengths over 40 bits is considered strong encryption by the U.S. Government for export purposes.
Most browsers support 40-bit SSL sessions, and the latest browsers enable users to encrypt transactions in 128-bit sessions. 128-bit encrypted messages are 309,485,009,821,345,068,724,781,056 times harder to break than 40-bit messages. Thus, it would take the same technology used to crack the RSA 40-bit message 1 trillion x 1 trillion years to crack a 128-bit message. That's several trillion times longer than the age of the Earth. |
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How do 128-bit SSL Global Server IDs protect transactions?
128-bit SSL Server IDs are virtually unforgeable: the cryptographic keys contained within them are almost unbreakable. VeriSign sells Global Server IDs only to legitimate businesses that are capable of authenticating their identity to VeriSign and of meeting meet the necessary U.S. government qualifications. VeriSign's thorough authentication procedures help to ensure that 128-bit SSL Global Server IDs cannot be obtained under false pretenses. |
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What Web browsers are compatible with 128-bit SSL Global Server IDs?
Customers or end users connecting to the Web server should have a compatible client application to take advantage of the security facilitated by 128-bit SSL Global Server IDs:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02 (Windows NT 4.0+ only) with a special patch or later
- Netscape Navigator 4.06 or later
- Microsoft Money 98
- Intuit Quicken |
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