i will like to have a comprehensive list of stores that employ the
secure server link(SSL) for the processing of orders placed online.

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Request for Question Clarification by joseleon-ga on 03 Jan 2004 03:18 PST

Hello, tony22:
  There should be a lot stores that use SSL, how many do you want?

Regards.

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Clarification of Question by tony22-ga on 04 Jan 2004 04:27 PST

i will need as many as you can provide.preferably i will like to know
if there is a website that list stores that employ the ssl.thank you

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Request for Question Clarification by joseleon-ga on 04 Jan 2004 06:54 PST

Hello, tony22:
  There should be millions of stores that use SSL, that is, ALL stores
should work this way because it's the only way customers can trust
them. If you tell me more about the purpose of that information, maybe
I can help you in another way.

Regards.

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Request for Question Clarification by joseleon-ga on 06 Jan 2004 04:48 PST

Hello, tony22:
  I suggest you to take a look here:

Shopping
http://directory.google.com/Top/Shopping/

It has a lot of online stores.

Regards.

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Request for Question Clarification by joseleon-ga on 06 Jan 2004 04:49 PST

Hello, tony22:
  Also, if you set a limit for your list (i.e. 50) I will post as an
aswer a list of stores that use SSL for processing orders online.

Regards.

Right now, SSL (secure socket layer) is the defacto standard and is
pretty much used on all commercially-viable secure sites. Interesting
since the draft standard has actually expired. Meantime, the TLS
Working Group (TLS = transport layer security) was established in 1996
to standardize a 'transport layer' security protocol as an SSL
replacement, and started by using SSL version 3.0 as a starting point.
In 1999, RFC 2246, TLS Protocol Version 1.0 was published as a
Proposed Standard, but it has not been accepted, nor adopted. The
working group has also published RFC 2712, Addition of Kerberos Cipher
Suites to Transport Layer Security (TLS) as a Proposed Standard, and
two RFCs on the use of TLS with HTTP (hyper text transfer protocol -
the protocol the internet uses to communicate between servers and
browsers). The big benefit I see to TLS is that it will be compliant
with a variety of ciphersuites -- increasing the intrusion resistance.

If you are simply looking to understand the adoption of SSL by
e-commerce sites, simply know that most sites with secure areas use
it. The certificate authorities (such as verisign, thawte, etc.)
embrace this (i think 128-bit) standard.  If you are looking for
technical information, I suggest a visit to the IETF website. The The
Internet Engineering Task Force is an open organization of various
folks in the internet industry (of which I'm a member) and it operates
primarily via working groups.  There are search functions there that
will allow you to find out technical information based on key words.

whoops... www.ietf.org.