What does it mean when you go to an encrypted website.

I can't find any pages that explain this. A friend wants to know but I can't find any info. She clicked on the ok button to allow. Shes at a hotel so shes using the hotel connection.

 

Yes, does anyone know what it means? i went to website and it popped up saying something like "the script has been encrypted. would you like to continue?" and it had continue and cancel button and i clicked the continue button. do you think i should be ok?

 

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When you go to an encrypted website it means that all communication between you and the website is now encrypted. So, if there is someone tapping your internet connection, trying to get your credit card number or bank information, he/she can only see gibberish. On normal non-encrypted websites, information flows as entered, so if you type in your credit card number and its expiry date, the information will travel as is, in a form of a sequential string, to the website and can be easily intercepted by the man in the middle.

 

This typically happens when you view a secure https page but there is regular http assetts on the page such as images or .css

You can replicate this for example by going to https://www.rapidshare.com and uploading a blank text file. The uploader sends to normal http (no 's') so you get a warning.

This is "normally" a simple mistake by the site coder failing to append the 's' to something in the page, but it can mean something capturing the data.