Shopping for Online SafetySince the early 2000s, people have been shopping online. It has grown more and more where people are now constantly online to shop. Anything and everything is available for purchase. From a fruit from around the world; to a vehicle that is a few states away. Whatever you want, if you have the money to acquire it, you can probably buy it. But what happens when someone else gets hold of your information while you're shopping online? It's much less visible than if you were at the supermarket down the street. There it would be much easier to notice if someone takes your wallet. Online, someone can simply hack your account without your knowledge and take all your information. They could shop online. If this happens to you, you will attack the site that leaked your information so easily. This could permanently ruin a business. Why then would a business even risk having an online store, what can it do to protect its consumers and itself, and what can the consumer do to protect themselves? business-to-business commerce conducted via the Internet or other electronic networks. (Merriam-Webster) Online retailing is very profitable. Anyone can access a website to view their favorite products and make a purchase. This makes selling products much easier and less expensive than building a building to store the products they want to sell. This building is much less remote than the online store, which will result in less profit in the long run. For small businesses just starting out, or even mid-sized businesses, the conversion and decryption algorithms are the same. With asymmetric public key algorithms, there are two different but similar keys. One key is made public and one key is kept secret. In reality, symmetric and asymmetric key algorithms are used together. The reason is that the symmetric system is much faster. A random key is then generated and encrypted using the asymmetric algorithm. The user then uses the first key entered and, with the asymmetric algorithm, the data is decrypted with the newly created key. Cryptographic systems are not the only component of cryptography. The main areas are cryptosystems, modes, protocols and key management. Cryptosystems form the basis of cryptography and refer to algorithms for securing data. Modes refer to how algorithms are used and used to handle algorithms that last longer than a single blocking block.