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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: ouroboros on October 10, 2011, 02:32 am
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I apologize if this is a noob question, but it wasn't covered in the buyers guide. I am interested in making my first purchase off SR, but when filling in a delivery address to make an order do you need to encrypt it with the sellers pgp key? I don't see why not but I wanted to clarify that this was common practice.
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Yes normally you will want to encrypt your address at the purchase screen.
1st check the sellers home page. If they show you their PGP key, its usually safe that you can do encryption for all communications, including your address and name etc.
If I could only encrypt just *1* detail here at SR I would choose it to be name+address.... everything else is secondary to that.
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I apologize if this is a noob question, but it wasn't covered in the buyers guide. I am interested in making my first purchase off SR, but when filling in a delivery address to make an order do you need to encrypt it with the sellers pgp key? I don't see why not but I wanted to clarify that this was common practice.
Well you don't really have to encrypt your name and address but if you don't the only person you're really hurting is yourself. I'd say its a pretty good idea to just encrypt all communication with a seller.
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If you don't encrypt messages don't discuss things in too much detail. Write like it's a public forum. It's a good idea to use for PGP for sensitive information. I use it whenever I can because every extra layer of protection helps.
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That's cleverness we can ALL admire. +K
Piece, Love, and Fuck Haters.
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Sorry guys, I misread the time-stamp ::)
Piece, Love, and Fuck Haters.
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Lol Razorspyne, how did you not see this thread was on page 50 or something? :P
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Lol Razorspyne, how did you not see this thread was on page 50 or something? :P
I was looking up something in search as usual. ::) I clicked on this result and I glanced at the guy's post and made my own. I thought the timestamp said 2012 not 2011. Actually that's a pretty long time ago. ???
So E=daveC²? I just gave you +1 even though you're not here any more. You're welcome. :)
Piece, Love, and Fuck Haters.
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I apologize if this is a noob question, but it wasn't covered in the buyers guide. I am interested in making my first purchase off SR, but when filling in a delivery address to make an order do you need to encrypt it with the sellers pgp key? I don't see why not but I wanted to clarify that this was common practice.
It's like wearing a seat belt. You may not get in an accident today or tomorrow, or in the next year, but the day it happens, it may save your life. Wearing a seat belt costs you nothing, so there's no reason not to do it for that small chance.
Encrypting your address is easy and costs you almost nothing (ok, maybe 30 seconds out of your life), so why not encrypt your address in the small chance there's a big accident, where the SR server is compromised?