<![endif] IEEE.org | IEEE Xplore Digital Library | IEEE Standards | IEEE Spectrum | More Sites Follow on: Advertisement Engineering Topics Special Reports Blogs Multimedia The Magazine Professional Resources Search /.primary Cover Computing Hardware By Greg Taylor, George Cox Posted 24 Aug 2011 | 18:02 GMT Share | Email | Print Image: Carl DeTorres Imagine that it's 1995 and you're about to make your very first online purchase. You open your Netscape browser, sipping coffee as the home page slowly loads. You then navigate to Amazon.com, a new online bookstore your friend told you about. As you proceed to make your purchase and enter your payment information, the address your browser points to changes from one starting with “http” to one that begins with “https.” That signals that your computer has establis...