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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: Funbagz on December 13, 2012, 07:11 am

Title: Please add a place for Buyers to put their Public PGP!
Post by: Funbagz on December 13, 2012, 07:11 am
I like to include my Public PGP key with my orders in the event my Vendor needs to contact me Encrypted. Yeah I know Copy and Paste is easy.... but that also requires me to keep my Public Key somewhere on my local machine. I would much like to remove that Key to a secret place. Please add a Profile for buyers or something. Maybe not a profile that we can type anything we want. Perhaps an area in Settings where I can permanently upload my Public key.

I hope I can get some support on this request from my fellow SR people. I'm sure vendors would not mind a link directly next to "Send message to USERNAME" that could say "View User's PGP Key" or something.

Also, a Buyer's Lack of PGP key could indicate their level of seriousness and/or experience. Vendors could choose not to accept orders from those with no
PGP at their own discretion.
Title: Re: Please add a place for Buyers to put their Public PGP!
Post by: Oompaloompa on December 13, 2012, 08:59 am
I'd like to see this on SR 'profiles', it shouldn't just be vendors who're able to list a pgp key.
Title: Re: Please add a place for Buyers to put their Public PGP!
Post by: Funbagz on December 14, 2012, 12:58 am
Yeah I was thinking more like it should posted on the same page as Buyer Stats.

but how would SR determine if what is posted is PGP or some bullshit?
Title: Re: Please add a place for Buyers to put their Public PGP!
Post by: Oompaloompa on December 14, 2012, 08:13 am
Yeah I was thinking more like it should posted on the same page as Buyer Stats.

but how would SR determine if what is posted is PGP or some bullshit?
Why'd they need to?

You'd have responsibility for posting your own PGP key, if you chose not to or posted something else well thats up to you. I imagine some people wouldn't post a key, just as some people don't encrypt their addresses now, but it'd be nice for those with a concern for security to be able to post their public keys.
Title: Re: Please add a place for Buyers to put their Public PGP!
Post by: fleetingglimpse on December 14, 2012, 06:29 pm
Please excuse me if I'm missing something here.

There is a full sticky thread of PGP keys in the security forum. If  its there and needed surely the vendor will find it? Also, its a public key so I wouldn't be worried about keeping it secret!

Again apologies if im not getting it.

 ??? fg
Title: Re: Please add a place for Buyers to put their Public PGP!
Post by: Oompaloompa on December 15, 2012, 05:54 pm
The stickied thread of PGP keys is now on its 94th page, so its not that easy to find what your looking for there.
I think what we want is a bit more convenience - somewhere to post public keys on SR so there's no need to go to the forums & search around.

Don't think anyone was worried about keeping public keys secret, as you say they're public so no need.
Title: Re: Please add a place for Buyers to put their Public PGP!
Post by: fleetingglimpse on December 15, 2012, 06:12 pm
but that also requires me to keep my Public Key somewhere on my local machine. I would much like to remove that Key to a secret place.

My reference was to this mate ;)

If you go into that thread then do a search for a username im pretty sure it finds it. Mine is in there. Give it a go see if you find it.

But, yip, I get you if you don't want to search. But if its that important.......
Title: Re: Please add a place for Buyers to put their Public PGP!
Post by: fleetingglimpse on December 15, 2012, 06:21 pm
Here is yours dude-

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32)
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=6IuK
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

It was on page 41 i think. Terrible memory ::)
Title: Re: Please add a place for Buyers to put their Public PGP!
Post by: modernist on December 17, 2012, 12:57 pm
+1 to OP

Searching might be easy enough, but it puts strain on SR's servers. I suppose it would be much easier for the server (and for the vendors) to just look up the key on the buyer stats page.