Alwanza.net Secure Pages

Notice the "https" in the address bar of your browser.  This is a secure page which means that the packets running across the internet are encrypted, and therefore protected against "sniffing" (also called a "man in the middle" attack) along the way.

When I first set up this website, almost no websites had secure encrypted pages.  Now it is more the rule than the exception.

When I first set up this website, I encrypted only a section of it, not the entire website, and I used a self-signed certificate.

The current certificate is from a "trusted certificate authority" and it was a little tricky to configure it properly the first time.

When I used a self-signed certificate, a warning would pop-up when you linked to the encrypted page.  The warning would tell you that the certificate was not from a valid authority.  You would have to allow a security exception in your Web browser for the self-signed certificate; but you only had to do that once.  When you revisited the page it would you would link seamlessly from unencrypted web pages to secure encrypted ones.

Now that I have a certificate signed by a certificate authority, there are no warnings to interrupt your web browsing.