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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: Green Camel on April 13, 2013, 12:43 am

Title: How to prevent scamming buyers from ordering from you ever again
Post by: Green Camel on April 13, 2013, 12:43 am
Generate a sha512 checksum of scammer's house number and postcode and save the checksum in a text file, alongside the name of their locality. If someone from said locality places an order, generate another checksum, this time using the new buyer's details and see if the checksum matches the one you have on file. If it does, cancel the order.

An example:

Bristol be688838ca8686e5c90689bf2ab585cef1137c999b48c70b92f67a5c34dc15697b5d11c982ed6d71be1e1e7f7b4e0733884aa97c3f7a339a8ed03577cf74be09

You're not actually saving addresses but checksums, so you're not breaking any rules.

This is how you can do it on Linux:

$ echo '1rm10aa'|sha512sum
f73f69273ea7b00127aab8853f85bb5ffd9fab2cf504b5437bcd9bc148e13e46af413ede0f90b100c8dc48ef5d34921786bef11da0194ed24dffa5e166272387  -

1 is the house number and rm10aa is the postcode. The long string is the actual checksum.

You can even take it a step further and make these checksums public.