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Security
LinkPoint maintains
one of the highest reliability rates in the industry, utilizing five
major telecommunications providers and two operational bases. The Linkpoint
Gateway provides data encryption, server authentication, message integrity
and optional client authentication for a TCP/IP connection by the Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. SSL is a protocol developed by Netscape®
to provide secure transmission of private information that is sent over
the Internet. This protocol uses public and private key pairs to encrypt
data. The public and private keys are dissimilar and each pair is unique;
therefore, the keys possessed verify the sender's identity. The public
key is distributed to the merchant, ISP or CSP in the form of a digital
certificate, which contains information that can verify the key holder
identity and the key validity. The private key is kept confidential
and remains on the Payment Gateway. If data is encrypted with the private
key, only the public key can decrypt it. If data is encrypted with the
public key, only the private key can decrypt it. This process prevents
the data from being compromised while in transit.
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