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It is an undisputed historical fact that ubiquitous strong encryption was the primary enabler in the explosion of online commerce. What are you even talking about?


Source?


http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ecommerce/encrypt.html

http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/ssl.asp

Those were the two most relevant links from Googling "ecommerce encryption". Regardless, without the ability encrypt personal and payment data for ecommerce transactions, it would've never succeeded.




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