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.