How can I be sure your site is secure?
We have taken
steps to ensure that when you enter sensitive information
at thehairshop like credit and debit card details that these
are done over a secure link from your browser to our servers.
To check that the connection is secure you can look for two
things, firstly, the url will start with https:// and not
http:// the s meaning that it is secure. Secondly there will
be a gold padlock displayed at the bottom of your browser,
indicating that the page you are viewing is secure.
All secure information
is sent over a digitally encrypted link at 128 bits. Our secure
certificate is authenticated by Thawte you can view our certificate
here.
Just to give
you an example of how long it would take to decrypt 128 bits
the following was taken from this website. http://www.avolio.com/columns/pkiq+a.html
Q: how long
would it take someone to crack 128 bit encryption?
When
the press talks about "cracking" or "breaking"
an encryption algorithm. They always seem to mean this: the
"attacker" decrypted a message by guessing the secret
key that was used for the encryption. This is not breaking
or cracking a particular algorithm. But it does demonstrate
the importance of key size. The key size -- the number of
bits used to store the key, which is an integer number --
determines the size of the key space, the number of possible
keys that can be used. If you knew that to decrypt a message
you needed to guess a number between 1 and 10, would you feel
challenged? How about between 1 and 1000? How about 1 and
1^38 (1 followed by 38 zeros). That is (roughly) the key space
using a 128-bit key. For comparison purposes, let’s
use a (so far) non-existent computer that can guess 1 trillion
(1 followed by 12 zeroes) keys a second. On average, it
would take around 2 million million million (2 followed by
18 zeroes) years to guess the key.
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