| |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | | | | | Office Supplies Online from Officepoint Fivestar the only way to buy office products | | | |  | | |  | | | | | | | | | Worried about online security? Officepoint Fivestar secures the safety of your online purchases. I don't see a padlock...does this mean this site is unsecure? How secure is this site? Has there ever been any fraud with this e-commerce system? What cards do you accept? What are the technical details of Officepoint Fivestar's security system? | Officepoint Fivestar secures the safety of your online purchases. Security is a top priority at Officepoint Fivestar. To safeguard your personal information, our systems encrypt your details, thereafter your data is protected around the clock. Our systems are protected by firewalls and anti virus software that act as shields to our computer networks.Our software encrypts all of your personal information, including credit card information. The process of encryption takes the information you enter and converts it into bits of code that are securely transmitted over the Internet. This scrambled data cannot be read as the information travels over the Internet. Once your encrypted personal information is received by our selves, it is translated back into it's original form and stored in our off-line database. Your credit card information is not transmitted over the Internet again. back | 1) I don't see a padlock...does this mean this site is unsecure? Our shopping system is totally secure - there is no padlock because we use Java encryption software. All credit card numbers are encrypted by the software when the order is placed using 128 bit encryption. They are only decrypted after they reach our computer. They are not held in clear text on any web site. This system is actually more secure than SSL (https://) which has the padlock. The following banks have approved their customers use of this shopping system - Barclays Bank, HSBC Bank and The Royal Bank of Scotland.
back | 2) Ok How secure is this site? The encryption key used by this shopping system is 128bit. SSL (https://) is commonly 40bit or 56bit outside of America. To put things in context, each additional bit of key space takes twice as long to break. So a 41 bit key is twice as strong as a 40 bit key. The 128 bit key used in Officepoint Fivestar’s shopping system is 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 times as strong as the SSL 56 bit key.
back | 3) Has there ever been any fraud with this e-commerce system? back | 4) What cards do you accept? We accept most credit card flavours of Visa, Delta, MasterCard, Switch and Solo - sorry AMEX not accepted.
|  | back | 5) What are the technical details of Officepoint Fivestar's security system? Key length A 128 bit Safer key, which gives a reasonable performance whilst being several orders of magnitude beyond where brute force methods could break the encryption. SSL offers only a 40-bit key in non-US implementations (although 56 bit key implementations are now becoming available). To put things in context, each additional bit of key space takes twice as long to break. So a 41 bit key is twice as strong as a 40 bit key. The 128 bit key used in this Catalogue is 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 times as strong as the SSL 56 bit key back
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