Christian Biesinger wrote: > Beaumont Jones wrote: > >> i just starting using mac mozilla 0.9.9. is the encryption for sending >> credit card info and that sort of stuff fairly secure? maybe this is a >> dumb question, as i never really asked it about internet explorer. >> thanks! > > > The 128 bit SSL-encryption that's used for sending encrypted data over > the internet is considered very secure by cryptography experts. It would > probably take (on average) years to decrypt a transmission. > > (Note that the same is true for Internet Explorer's encryption, as it > uses the same mechanism. Note however that older versions of MSIE use by > default a comparatively insecure method and need an upgrade to encrypt > securely. This may only apply to users outside of the US). > >
What Christian said is right. Look out for sites that use low-grade encryption (Mozilla should alert you of this) like 40-bit. 40-bit was the maximum the US govt allowed for export until relatively recently, and should be considered insecure.
