Shopping Cart Software - Secure SSL Shopping Cart

Everyone knows that hackers and people with bad intentions will try to corrupt internet transactions whenever they can. That is why transactions that use our shopping cart software are protected by what is called a secure socket layer or SSL. In order to receive payments promptly for your credit card gateway and to protect your customers and your business, an online shopping cart should have an SSL certificate.

How SSL Certificates Works With Shopping Cart Software
The reason that you need to protect your customers and your business when conducting transactions using your online shopping cart is that the packets of information that are sent across the internet between your web site and your customers can be tracked and 'seen' by hackers or other intruders. SSL is an encryption method that has two components, a public key which is used to encrypt information and a private key that is used to decipher the encrypted information.

When your customer accesses your web site and hopefully your shopping cart using their browser an SSL "handshake" authenticates your web site and establishes a unique session key for that particular visit by that specific online customer and a unique encryption method that is associated with that customers session on your web site. This allows information, such as your customers credit card data to be transmitted securely without the possibility of that information being recognized or deciphered by hackers or intruders.