As part of our overall security, XONAIR has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars on state-of-the art servers and security systems. These are located in our Los Angeles headquarters, and are manned 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to make sure that our store is always open and ready for shopping.

The next level of security is our Secure Socket Layer connections for transactions. What that means is that the data you send to us has been "encrypted" so that outsider's can't read it.

Encryption is the scrambling of information for transmission back and forth between two points using a numerical formula that scrambles the information. Your web browser and XONAIR's computers understand these formulas that turn your shopping session into numeric code (encode your data) while your information is traveling over the Internet, and back into meaningful information (decode your data) when it arrives at your computer or the XONAIR store.

The effectiveness, or level of security, for encryption is measured in terms of the length of the key used to encode and decode your data. The longer the key, the longer it would take for someone without the correct decoder key and with very sophisticated computer equipment to break the code. The length of the key is measured in bits.

Currently, there are international grade browsers (40-bit), and there are domestic grade browsers (128-bit and 56-bit). The 128-bit browser offers the highest level of encryption generally available to the public in North America today and provides very strong protection when transmitting confidential data over the Internet.

40-bit encryption means there are 240 possible decoder keys that could be used to decode your account information. That means there are many billions (a 1 followed by 12 zeros) of possible keys.

128-bit encryption means there are 288 possible decoder keys that could be used to decode your account information. There are many billions (a 1 followed by 26 zeros) of possible keys. According to Netscape, 128-bit encryption is 309,485,009,821,345,068,724,781,056 times more powerful than 40-bit encryption.

What does the VeriSign Checkmark mean?

Verisign is a private security company that analyzes an Internet company's credit-worthiness, business ethics, and, most importantly, the safety and security of its electronic commerce. By clicking on the check mark, you will see the Verisign's Digital Seal (what you should always look for on any site, since many companies say they are protected by VeriSign when they aren't.

In addition to VeriSign, we also access First Data Base and other international systems to guarantee that your credit card or wire transaction is totally safe and secure.