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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: sentience on August 08, 2012, 11:31 pm

Title: Public key / Fingerprint profile field
Post by: sentience on August 08, 2012, 11:31 pm
Hi there. It would be really useful to have a dedicated profile field for which people can insert GPG public keys and/or OTR fingerprints. Perhaps it could be a textarea to make copying and pasting easier. What do you think?
Title: Re: Public key / Fingerprint profile field
Post by: pestlepete on August 15, 2012, 03:21 am
If it was separate from the profile, maybe it could be made readily available on listing pages and within the shopping cart, so buyers don't "forget" as often.

I think it couldn't hurt, but I doubt it would convince too many more people to use PGP, if that's your goal. Worth a try if it's easy to implement, though.

Peace
Title: Re: Public key / Fingerprint profile field
Post by: strangemagic on August 16, 2012, 10:34 am
A separate field on the Ordering page might be useful for this, so buyers can send their public key to a new vendor in a field separate from the address, along with any other information that should accompany the order.

At present, if I buy from a vendor I haven't used before, I have to put my public key into the address field (or else send it in a separate PM, which makes more effort for the vendor). And I'm kinda fearful that one day a package will arrive in the mail from a new and careless vendor, with part of my public key printed on the address label. That would be pretty disastrous. The address field should be just for the address, IMHO.

Or are you guys talking about vendors' public keys? I assumed not, since vendors have their own ways of posting their key, but apologies if my comments are irrelevant to this thread.