Area secured

SHTTP means Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol which is developed by Enterprise Integration Technologies in 1995 to ensure security with commercial transactions on the Internet. A protocol that provides secure transactions over the Web. It is endorsed by a variety of organizations.

An extension to the HTTP protocol to support sending data securely over the World Wide Web. Not all Web browsers and servers support S-HTTP. Another technology for transmitting secure communications over the World Wide Web -- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) -- is more prevalent. However, SSL and S-HTTP have very different designs and goals so it is possible to use the two protocols together. Whereas SSL is designed to establish a secure connection between two computers, S-HTTP is designed to send individual messages securely. Both protocols have been submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for approval as a standard.

SHTTP is very important because more and more websites allow money transactions online. Here are several examples : monalbumphoto.fr , pixmania.com, rueducommerce.com …
Those websites have an e commercial activity. You choose a product on the website and then you pay online with a shttp protocole. Then you receive the product you have ordered. This is also very important for all the online mail boxes on which you login (gmail) . Buying a mp3 on a mp3 platform (itunes.com), buying a book on amazon, buying food on www.auchandirect.fr knowing that it secure to payonline. Many companies couldn’t live without shttp.

how would ebay cope with an unsecured transaction protocole ?