The article is misleading/false. Asymmetric crypto in SSL is used to exchange a symmetric key (shared secret), which is then used to encrypt traffic. So your c

The article is misleading/false. Asymmetric crypto in SSL is used to exchange a symmetric key (shared secret), which is then used to encrypt traffic. So your credit card is not encrypted using public key crypto as described in the article. Source: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6101#section-6.2 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6101#section-6.2