This web site is secured using a Thawte Digital Certificate. This ensures that all information you send to us via the World Wide Web will be encrypted. If any other internet user intercepts the communication he/she will only be able to see it in an encrypted (garbled) form. Certificate technology allows us to decrypt the information, and view it in plain text form.

SECURITY INFORMATION

When you use your credit card to shop at computermarket.com, you can rest assured that your personal information and payment details are 100% secure. All transactions are safeguarded with "military strength" encryption technology - the methods used being 128bit SSL or Actinic Java Encryption.

With a secure site, your personal details, credit card information and other order information are encrypted by your web browser and then transmitted to the webserver using very strong encryption. In the case of computermarket.com, this information remains encrypted on the webserver and sensitive details erased when your order is downloaded by the vendor.

SSL is supported by Netscape Navigator (versions 2.0 and above), Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 3.0 and above) and AOL (AOL 3.0 and above). It is important to be aware however, that only recently has the US Government allowed the export of 128bit encryption technology - therefore only the most recent browser updates support the 128bit standard. The 128bit versions are; Netscape (version 4.7 or later) or Internet Explorer (version 5.01 or later).

It is for your privacy and piece of mind that computermarket.com have therefore chosen to adopt 128bit encryption. This gives good performance whilst being several orders of magnitude beyond where brute force methods could break the encryption. For a long time SSL offered only a 40-bit key in non-US implementations (although 56 bit key implementations are now fairly common). 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 by computermarket.com is 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 times as strong as the SSL 56 bit key.

In providing this information our goal has been to inform, rather than confuse - we certainly hope that we haven't done the later. However, because many of our users are well versed in computer and related issues, we thought that thorough explanation of SSL encryption would be justified. To summarise, using your credit card on the internet in general and on computermarket.com in particular, is many times safer than handing your card to a waiter in a restaurant