Quote from: StenoJ on July 27, 2012, 04:28 amI am very eager to get started on silk road. My small brain is having the worst time wrapping around the pgp messaging. I am using mac ox and trying to configure using gpg keychain access. How long does it usually take a noob to get the hang of this?It takes as long as it has to. Using PGP is not really an option merely because it's not part of SR's software. It should be thought of like wearing your seat belt while driving.Read through my post on the Russian Postal System to get a handle on the rationale behind public and private keys (it's in this thread). Then think about it for a while and then follow these instructions: 1. Download GPG (this is the open source implementation of PGP) for your operating system. (with GUI front end).2. Install, and then run a program called GPA (GNU privacy assistant).3. Go to 'Keys' on the menu and create a PGP key. You will need to decide on 3 things: - how secure the encryption is, represented by key length e.g. 2048 bit, 4096 bit and so on. - what name to use. I strongly advise this to be your SR username on the forums so I can find you later. - what email to use. You should use either a fake email or a tormail a/c email address.4. Then PM me your public key. You get this by selecting copy on the GPA list of keys and pasting in the PM.5. Next, import my public key. This is in the 2nd post in my PGP thread. Just copy paste that into a text file e.g. with notepad or gedit, and save it as pine.txt or pine.gpg or whatever you like.6. Import that key into the GPA.7. Go to the clipboard and make a message to me. Then select encrypt and choose my public key to encrypt it with. Then PM that to me.