Our web site generates your listings and calculates the amounts
you need to pay. When its time for you to enter your card details
we pass you across to the WorldPay servers. You may see a message
appear on your computer telling you that you are entering a secure
area and you will see a padlock or key at the bottom of your screen
to verify this.
At this point all of the information being sent from your computer
to the payment system is encrypted so no-one can steal your details
as they pass over the internet. To give you an idea of how hard
it would be to get hold of your card details......
- first you have to intercept the data as it travels between
your computer your ISP and the bank - like tapping a telephone
call
- second you have to identify the message with the card details
from the hundreds of thousands passing through
- finally you have to break the encryption to see the message
content
We use 128 bit encryption to secure your details. This means that
there are more than 300 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
000 000 key combinations to try. With even the fastest computers
working full time on this it would take thousands of years to find
the right combination. Chances are your card will have expired
by then! |