How safe is your website and my messages to you?
Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate is a security technology for sites that protects the data that your customers enter on your site: credit card numbers, social security numbers, login credentials, etc. TLS and SSL encrypts the data transfer from your site, and publishes the content securely using HTTPS instead of HTTP.
Having a TLS or SSL certificate also affects your site ranking in the search engine results since Google and other engines prefer secured sites over unsecured.
You can tell if a site is secure by looking at its link in the browser: site is not secured if it has a warning icon and the “Not Secure” note. TLS/SSL-secured sites have the padlock icon:
We send your messages using protected 256 bit SSL (Secure Socket Layer) connection that uses
- a SHA256 Certificate. This is the same level of protection used by online banking or e-commerce providers
- the latest and secure ciphers like AES_CBC/AES_GCM 256 bit/128 bit keys
These ensure that your mail is protected from unauthorized access, disclosure or modification. All data transfers on the web happen in secure mode (https).