Quote from: sofish89 on April 27, 2013, 04:41 amSo if a vendor gets busted and the cops take his computer(that he uses for SR) does that mean they have his private key and can decipher his messages?is the private key something saved on his computer that LE can find or is it something that is memorized?In that case they require his passphrase to use the private key. But this is why we're on an anonymity network. If all messages were enciphered with PGP, then LE agents would have to SWAT every single vendor's residence at the exact same time, which sounds uneconomical, but first they'd have to break Tor, and even then they wouldn't intercept a few vendor's locations because some people are using a more diverse set of anonymizing techniques than pure Tor. e.g. See the security sub-forum for details.It's not that you can't do all this in theory, given vast resources and time, it's just that there's easier ways to cause problems for SR than this, upon which I shall not speculate.