The ElekChek SSL Internet transaction gateway allows you to conduct real-time credit card transactions over the Internet using the encryption capability of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. ElekChek performs on a secure server host that interfaces directly to the transaction network.

ElekChek's virtual private network, communicating via HTTP and operating over SSL, works as follows:

	The consumer purchases merchandise by sending a payment request, with the credit card information, to the ElekChek server.
	This information is encrypted between the consumer's computer and the ElekChek server.
	The ElekChek server creates an authorization request (in the VisaNet second generation format) and sends it to the SSL server operated by the transaction gateway.
	This SSL server then decrypts the request and sends it over a private link to the gateway node.
	From here, the transaction is routed according to the Bank Identification Number (BIN) in the transaction record -- just as if a standard point-of-sale terminal application had placed the call.

The SSL Internet gateway supports SSL 3.0 (TLS v1.1). The ElekChek server supports 256-bit SSL encryption.