Jonas J�rgensen wrote: > Neville Cobb wrote: > >> I wanted to puraches some books on line and the particular site said >> that it uses SSL to encrypt pades and that anything sent back would >> be encrypted. However The security lock on mozulla did not turn >> yellow (nor was it highlighted in MS Explorer either). >> >> Can this be true in that you can have encrypted pages be sent back to >> companies without the mozilla lock being activated. At the moment >> I've no confidence in the site and that my data is safe. Are there >> other ways of checking that it is secure or should the mozilla lock >> be highlighted in all cases in order to provide some level of >> confidence? > > > > Look at the URL. If it begins with "https://";, it uses encryption. If > it begins with "http://";, it doesn't. > And you can also click on the padlock to determine the level of encryption (40 or 56 bit isn't really good)
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