E-mail: store (at) horticulturesource (dot) com Postal / Mailing Address: Usisu, Inc. HorticultureSource.com Division 10013 NE Hazel Dell Ave., #146 Vancouver, WA 98685-5203 USA Voicemail: +(1) 503-922-3352 — Toll Free: +(1) 888-499-5514 Facsimile (Fax): +(1) 928-484-5514 — Toll Free: +(1) 888-732-9732 Secure Store: https://secure.usisu.com/hs/index.php

Ordering Online Is Safer Than Over The Phone

Our web site's checkout process is 256-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encrypted and 100% secure.

When we take a phone order we just enter the information into the system pretty much exactly the same as a customer would. It is actually MORE secure to checkout online yourself than to give your information over then phone which is not at all secure -- people can listen in on phone calls but they cannot snoop a secure web transaction. Furthermore when you do checkout online your card numbers are not ever stored in our system -- you enter your information and it gets sent directly to the credit card gateway (so only you and the bank know your numbers). All credit card information gets transmitted over the internet in the end no matter what -- it is just how the system works. Even most phone calls today are transmitted over the internet via VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).

More on 128-bit encryption:
It would take significantly longer than the age of the universe to crack an 128-bit key even with the combined computing power of all the computers in the world. Why you ask? Because there are 2¹²⁸ possible keys... That is a trillion doubled over and over on itself another 88 times. That is 339,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 possibilities! And the only way to crack it would be to try every option until you found the right one.

Breaking a 256 bit key (such as the one HorticultureSource.com uses) by brute force requires 2¹²⁸ times more computational power than a 128 bit key. A device that could check a billion billion (10¹⁸) keys per second would require about 3 x 10⁵¹ years to exhaust the 256 bit key space. No one on this earth is going to waste their time and trillions of dollars to get your card number.