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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: mrnye666 on October 21, 2011, 05:15 pm

Title: There is only one science guy, post who you were before the crash here
Post by: mrnye666 on October 21, 2011, 05:15 pm
I have several accounts on this forum, all mrnye*(insert number here) Just to let you alll know I'm not a shill or anything, just after this whole crash I haven't been able to logon to my original mrnye1 username. So to vendors  that I've messaged, mrnye1=mrnye1.1=mrnye666. Just clarifying. I think the same thing happened to a lot of users and I think we should have a thread to associate our new, working usernames, to our old inaccesible one. We can use this thread if everyone is cool with that.
Title: Re: There is only one science guy, post who you were before the crash here
Post by: madamebradley on October 21, 2011, 06:08 pm
You should set up a PGP key which will do much more for maintaining and proving your identity than a thread like this. It's also handy to send sensitive information, like your home address, as an encrypted message.

There's a step-by-step guide on the forum. I suggest you find and set one up so you can prove your identity. :)
Title: Re: There is only one science guy, post who you were before the crash here
Post by: mrnye666 on October 21, 2011, 06:13 pm
You should set up a PGP key which will do much more for maintaining and proving your identity than a thread like this. It's also handy to send sensitive information, like your home address, as an encrypted message.

There's a step-by-step guide on the forum. I suggest you find and set one up so you can prove your identity.

My pgp public key is in the pgp thread, if it still exists, but it was posted under a different username(mrnye1), so what good does that do? Also is the PGP key thread still around? I know a lot of older thread took flight from the forum and never came back.
Title: Re: There is only one science guy, post who you were before the crash here
Post by: madamebradley on October 21, 2011, 07:12 pm
You can sign your posts using your key and prove your identity.

There's a lot of things you can do having posted your key in that thread; you may want to read up on all the benefits of it.
Title: Re: There is only one science guy, post who you were before the crash here
Post by: dothisthing on October 22, 2011, 06:39 am
Basically, if you encrypt something with your private key anyone with your public key can decrypt it. So to prove you are the same person that posted the public key, you encrypt some text with your private key and if your public key can decrypt it, they know you are the owner of the matching private key. If you want people to be able to verify you at a future point tell them to store your public key, then, no matter how you contact them, you can sign something with your private key and prove you are who you say you are.
Title: Re: There is only one science guy, post who you were before the crash here
Post by: Oracle of Delphi on October 22, 2011, 11:23 pm
Basically, if you encrypt something with your private key anyone with your public key can decrypt it. So to prove you are the same person that posted the public key, you encrypt some text with your private key and if your public key can decrypt it, they know you are the owner of the matching private key. If you want people to be able to verify you at a future point tell them to store your public key, then, no matter how you contact them, you can sign something with your private key and prove you are who you say you are.
Im not so sure about this. Public keys are used for encrypting only, not decrypting.

If you want to verify your identify (or, to be more precise, the fact that you are holding a particular private key) you can post with signed messages. Here is an example:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

I have been high the past 420 hours, including sleeping hours.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux)
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=o/WC
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

If you have my public key (you can find it in the PGP key thread), you can verify that the above signature belongs to my public key.

Encryption is of great benefit in our situation. Especially in scenarios where sites and forums go down. My advice is collect the public keys of all the people you trust, they may come to great use in the future.
Title: Re: There is only one science guy, post who you were before the crash here
Post by: Rook on October 23, 2011, 05:50 pm
Im not so sure about this. Public keys are used for encrypting only, not decrypting.


If you have my public key (you can find it in the PGP key thread), you can verify that the above signature belongs to my public key.


In the context of signed messages, Verify = Decrypt.