Quote from: spoonstar100 on October 10, 2012, 11:23 amI always assumed that it was absolutely necessary to use encryption on your sensitive details such as name and address. You assumed correctly. Quote from: spoonstar100 on October 10, 2012, 11:23 amHowever one vendor seems to think it is a waste of time and a false security measure as silkroad apparently encrypts and then deletes all data sent through it, whereas any PGP encrypted message sent to a vendor may not be deleted and therefore is less safe."I fucking hate PGP - Please do not use PGP or privnote..! Addresses are automatically encrypted and deletedthrough the SR system. However, if you want your address decrypted, copied and pasted into my documents,and not automatically deleted after use - please feel free to continue relying on false security..."The vendor is 'revenantchild' here is a link to his page.http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/index.php/silkroad/user/e4f447f64aI'd just like to know if anyone else has an opinion on this as I've googled it to no avail.Cheers.This vendor is not only an idiot, but a grossly negligent idiot. I consider it negligent for any vendor to recommend that their buyers NOT use PGP, but resort to inferior services such as Privnote. However, this vendor goes much, much further than that. It is nothing less than gross negligence to ask that their buyers not make use of either PGP or Privnote. Even their PGP key uses the old key format, abandoned more than 2 years before the key was generated, so it would appear that the vendor couldn't even be bothered to use up to date encryption software, let alone use it properly. My advice? Don't just walk away, RUN!