S-HTTP was designed by E. Rescorla and A. Schiffman of EIT to secure HTTP connections. S-HTTP provides a wide variety of mechanisms to provide for confidentiality, authentication, and integrity. Separation of policy from mechanism was an explicit goal. The system is not tied to any particular cryptographic system, key infrastructure, or cryptographic format.

S-HTTP is a superset of HTTP, which allows messages to be encapsulated in various ways. S-HTTP appears to be extremely flexible in what it will allow the programmer to do. S- HTTP also offers the potential for substantial user involvement.

Identity theft is a very important thing to be aware about. For instance, when consulting our mail, our bank account, as we have to do when we are customers of most banks. For instance, Lloyd's TSB asks us to consult on the internet our bank account twice a month so that it makes money. So, about social security, bank accounts, there are many things we have to take care with. For instance, in my personnal case, before, I didn't know about that and I thought that I just had to close the window of my securised bank account. The problem is is that we are not enough taught about that, and the question is why? Security on the internet should be something more precise for users.