Silk Road forums

Quote from: chiefrogan on June 23, 2012, 03:00 am

thanks deadra +1 to ya

love eveyone sharing the wealth! ok now im out, but santa chief will be back this weekend to help those i missed.

just saying i prefer those who are asking have some sort of history here or post count so it has a better chance of helping someone get an order... not free btcs just cause. but thats the way she goes, its the way of the road bubs (1btc prize to someone who can name those quotes)

of course i broke my rule and hooked up the tall temptress because, well... wouldnt you?? goodluck on the road travelers and be safe

Trailer park boys for the win!???

***IMPORTANT: EDITED TO HIDE HOSTNAME AND SOLVE ISSUE BROUGHT TO ATTENTION***

I don't see this anywhere on this forum, so I'm going to post about silkroad via SILC. The chat is great quite honestly; the members are helpful, friendly, and knowledgeable. It's also a great place to gossip about sellers/news/etc and who's bought from who. There are also many sellers that frequent the chat! The server it is located on is fxb4654tpptq255w.onion. Easiest way is to use pidgin to connect to SILC. If you don't have pidgin, download it!

step 1: Go to accounts>manage accounts>add...

step 2: Select SILC from the dropdown menu under protocol

step 3: Pick a username and password (no registering is needed)

step 4: Put fxb4654tpptq255w.onion as your network

step 5: Go to advanced tab and also place fxb4654tpptq255w.onion under connect server

step 6: Go to proxy tab select SOCKS5 and configure it to use TOR.(Host: 127.0.0.1 Port: 9050) Click save! The account should then connect.

**step 7:** THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT AS IT REVEALS HOSTNAME. After your account is connected go to accounts>your SILC account you just made>create silc key pair...then change the host name, real name, and email to something of your choosing to keep yourself anonymous.

Make sure you use the same pass as you did when you created account if you choose to remember password, otherwise you wont be able to connect. If you do not scroll down when performing this step to fill in the passphrase boxes, your password will be blank and will not match the password for log on credentials thus making it impossible to load the key pair!

Click generate key pair, Set user info and then disable and re-enable the account. Every time you try to create a key pair it'll put your hostname in the account so be careful when generating key pairs. Make sure to go to accounts>set user info every time you generate a new key pair!

You may want to disable chat logging in pidgin if you do not have an encrypted partition or properly secured computer. To do this simply go to Tools>Preferences>Logging and un-check the boxes.

step 8: Join the chat! The chat name is silkroad. To join select buddies>join a chat>SILC account and put silkroad as channel name. Press join and that's all she wrote! Look forward to seeing some new faces in the chat. Sorry if this tutorial is a bit rocky, making tutorials isn't really my thing...

****Some pointers for our friends who cannot seem to join the chat*****
1 )Make sure the password you set in step 7 matches your password in your log in information.
2) Try deleting the account and trying again.
3) Find the .silc folder for Pidgin, which is usually in AppData under roaming. AppData is normally a hidden folder, which contained in your user folder so you may have to set windows to show hidden folders.
4) Try reinstalling pidgin.

**********MAC INSTRUCTIONS WRITTEN BY NIMBUS. BIG THANKS ******************************

Quote from: nimbus on February 14, 2012, 12:28 am

Here are some Mac instructions I posted a while ago in this thread, sorry but it takes a bit of work:

Here are some fairly simple instructions on using SILC on OSX Lion, based on a previous post about socat. socat seems broken via MacPorts at the moment, but it's easy to compile manually. Note that if using the Tor browser bundle it will assign a random Tor port every time you start it up, so you may want to install plain Vidalia instead.

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#!/bin/bash
#
# Install Xcode & MacPorts
#
# sudo port install silc-client
#
# Manually build socat-1.7.2.0:
#   wget http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/socat-1.7.2.0.tar.gz
#   tar zxvf socat-1.7.2.0.tar.gz
#   cd socat-1.7.2.0
#   ./configure
#   make
#   sudo make install
#
# WARNING: double-check your ~/.silc/silc.conf and scrub all traces of your name/nick/hostname/etc
# /whois yourself once connected to make sure it's using the right values
#

killall socat
sleep 1
socat TCP4-LISTEN:4242,fork SOCKS4A:localhost:fxb4654tpptq255w.onion:706,socksport=9050 &
/opt/local/bin/silc -c localhost -p 4242

Sidenote: Requested by b4b33 to include this in my tutorial, how to block whiteboard requests! Whiteboard is a pain and is really buggy, popping up excessive windows and making it impossible to type. To disable, simply go to accounts>silc account>edit account>advanced>block messages on whiteboard.

If anyone else has some pointers let me know. Good luck!
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