About GeoTrust Security:

As the world’s second largest Certificate Authority, GeoTrust provides the highest assurance of trust to all its customers. GeoTrust maintains compliance with WebTrust, a comprehensive third-party auditing process which signifies that GeoTrust meets the highest standards for issuing and managing digital certificates. GeoTrust also leverages the best possible physical infrastructure and network security to maintain customer accounts and certificate data. Our state of the art hosting facilities are fully redundant and hardened data and network operations centers that meet stringent WebTrust standards for physical and network access control. Independent security auditors also carefully scrutinize the physical systems, the software configurations and the processes and procedures used by all GeoTrust personnel.

About HTTPS and SSL security:

HTTPS encrypts and decrypts the page requests and page information between the client browser and the web server using a secure Socket Layer (SSL). HTTPS by default uses port 443 as opposed to the standard HTTP port of 80. URL's beginning with HTTPS indicate that the connection between client and browser is encrypted using SSL.

SSL transactions are negotiated by means of a keybased encryption algorithm between the client and the server, this key is usually either 40 or 128 bits in strength (the higher the number of bits the more secure the transaction).

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