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Security "Customers should use the same judgement on the internet as they do in the high street. Giving credit card details to a large online store such as Tesco is obviously much safer than giving it to a site selling black market Viagra. The transaction technology used by reputable companies on the internet is probably more secure than giving your card number to a waiter in a restaurant. When a customer enters an order on an online form alongside his or her credit card details, they are encrypted (scrambled to stop people reading them) and sent across the internet to the shop. The customers credit card details are then sent to a bank via a secure private network (as they are in most high street shops) and checked. If credit is available and the internet retailer has the right goods in stock, the online store will instruct its warehouse to send them out by post. The chances of someone intercepting credit card details as they are carried across the net are tiny." Article taken from the Saturday Times When you make a credit card purchase on the Verity Time site your credit card details and address information will be encrypted by our secure server using SSL3 technology, this is the most accepted standard for internet transactions. To help us please make sure you have enabled SSL in your internet browser, it is usually always set "on" by default. Digital Signatures Digital signatures are used throughout the system in order to ensure that transactions arriving at a gateway are from an identifiable merchant, and that any information passed back to the merchant is from a SecureTrading gateway. Each signature uniquely identifies its source. Gateways also communicate with each other and with the control system using such digital signatures. In the event that a merchant's digital signature becomes a security risk (e.g. if their server is stolen), the appropriate signature will be immediately revoked and will no longer function within the system. SecureTrading is the official Certification Authority (root CA) for these signatures. Encryption All communication within the system are strongly encrypted using 2048-bit RSA encryption with variable 168-bit session keys (i.e. each transaction uses a new key). This is significantly (many billions of times) more secure than standard browser SSL security provided by, e.g. Internet Explorer. SecureTrading encryption is also much more secure than that specified for the SET (Secure Electronic Transaction) protocol. The high level of encryption used is forecast as not being a requirement until the year 2015. The encryption is of course totally transparent to the merchant and his/her customers. A Quick Note from Securetrading about Security If you look up at the URL of our secure pages you will notice that they begin with https://. This means that they are on a Secure Server and all transactions that take place are encrypted between your browser and the server. Nobody is able to obtain your credit card details nor other information. Of equal importance is the security which surrounds the payment system. By making use of SecureTrading we have the most sophisticated online trading system available. It allows us to safely process your credit card payment with the bank, and complete the financial transactions securely behind protected firewalls. No personal or financial details are left unencrypted on a remote server, and such details are never sent by internet email. If you would rather use our manual order form. To fax or post to us please click Manual Order. |
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P.O. Box 188, Tring, Hertfordshire, HP23 6YU
Tel: 01442 828585 Fax: 01442 826945 Email: info@veritytime.co.uk