@jagfug: no worries mate, hopefully this will help you out. You're right, orders themselves can't be encrypted. Just your address on that checkout page. But really, everything you do on Silk Road is encrypted by the Tor network anyway, so when I say the order can't be encrypted all I mean is that you can't encrypt it *more*. It already is encrypted.Just to be clear, nobody listening in to your connection can tell what you're doing, but anybody who has control of the Silk Road server could see everything. This isn't true all the time, just with Tor hidden services. If you go to google.com or something, it's not encrypted.I've seen people recommend the program "gpg4usb". I think that's it anyway. I've never looked at it, but it's supposed to be easy. You might give that a try.Personally, I keep my address in a text file that I then encrypt for each order by typing "gpg -a -e -r {vendor} address.txt". That makes it plain-text readable instead of all funky symbols that don't copy & paste so well, and outputs a file called "address.txt.asc". The contents of that file is what I put as my address.The whole idea is that there are two keys that are kind of paired to each other, the public and private key pair. The public key you give out to the public, and the private one you never let anyone else see. People use the public key to encrypt stuff, and once something's been encrypted with a public key, only the matching private key can decrypt it.There's a lot more to it, but for making orders, it's really that simple. Once you use the public key of a key pair, only the private key can decrypt it. Hope that helps some.