eBuildingPermits.com
- uses a SSL (Secure Socket Layer) online encryption
certificate process to protect online users from theft due to hackers...
Secure Sockets
Layer (SSL)
For those who want it short and sweet...
Our Checkout web page is as safe a web page as any bank page... since it is 128 Bit Encryption Secure Socket Layer Protocol page.
For Those who need just a wee bit more info...
Introduction...
eBuidingPermits uses the highest
industry standard security protocol - Secure Sockets
Layer (SSL) - to encode sensitive information (personal
information) that passes between you and our companies
secure web page.
SSL works by creating
a temporary, shared "key" (sort of a digital
code book) that lets only the computers on either
end of a transmission scramble and unscramble the
information. To anyone between the sender and the
receiver, including all the in between servers that
may relay the message, the SSL transmission is indecipherable.
No eBuildingPermits' customer has ever reported misuse
of information protected by our deployed SSL technology.
Exchanging
"Hellos"...
When your browser opens a
secure Web page (web address begins with https://),
the server that is hosting the Secure Site sends a
"hello request" to your browser. The browser
then replies with a "client hello" response.
In networked environments like the World Wide Web,
individual PCs are named"clients." The server
responds back with a "server hello." Exchanging
all these "hellos" lets your browser and
the server's Web page determine the encryption and
compression standards that they both can support.
They also exchange a "session ID" - a unique
identifier for that session's specific interaction.
Once they have greeted each other, the browser asks
for the server's "digital certificate" -
it's the on-line e-commerce way of saying "Can
I see your ID, please?"
Your
ID - The Digital Certificate...
On-line companies get digital
certificates from a Certificate Authority, like RSA
Data Security, VeriSign, GeoTrust, Thawte, Baltimore
and EntrustA. The Certificate Authority verifies a
company's identification, and then issues to them
a unique certificate ID as identity proof.
Sharing
the Key...
After your browser and our
secure server provider have ' shaken hands', and after
your browser has checked our digital certificate for
authenticity, then your browser uses information in
our unique digital certificate to encrypt a message
back to us that only our secure server can understand.
Using that information, the browser and the server
create a "master key." This master key is
like a codebook that both sides can use to encode
and decode transmissions. Only your browser and our
server share that "master key", and it's
good for ONLY that individual session. Using this
unique, shared key, your browser and our secure server
can exchange sensitive information and no third parties
can't decipher or intercept it. When you surf off
a secure site page, the master keys you once held
in common become useless, since they are good for
one session only. When you go back to that secure
site page again, your computer and the secure server
will again go through the whole process of creating
a new and different unique "master key"
for that new session.
Knowing
When You are on a Secure Site...
You can tell when you're on
a secure site by looking at the drawing of a padlock
or key somewhere along the bottom of your browser's
window. If the key image is
'unbroken', or the lock image is 'closed', and the
image is ' golden' or 'glowing', that means you're
connected under the cloak of SSL security. Most browsers
can also be set to alert you when you 'enter' and
'leave' a secure website.
Is
it Safe...
The internet industry believes strongly in the safety
of SSL technology. The Federal
Government and all of the Fortune 500 Companies use
this technology to protect confidential customer information.
And as encryption technology continues to evolve,
eBuildingPermits will continue to incorporat the newest,
even more bulletproof, encryption methods.
Summing It Up...
SSL does make your on-line
transmission of personal information extremely safe.
eBuildingPermits
56 Mar Vista Drive - Monterey, CA.
93940
831-649-4659
