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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: TomsWay on February 19, 2012, 02:41 pm

Title: Tor PM + Encryption (Newbie Q)
Post by: TomsWay on February 19, 2012, 02:41 pm
Been lurking here quite a while absorbing enough info to feel comfortable enough to engage with the ultimate sweet shop. :)

So am cool with general workings (Tor, SSH Tunnels, PGP etc) just one thing I am unsure of is how to contact vendors who don't use PGP? Have had a search of the discussions but couldn't find anything to answer my question.

Say a vendor, like HappyHippy for instance, does not use PGP but specifies on their profile to just get in touch with an encrypted message over Tor PM - what is the procedure?
 
I see Tor PM declares on their site that messages are encrypted would this suffice? Or is there any other type of encryption that can be used without having a public/private PGP key to decrypt the message?

Just don't want to go about sending unencrypted messages to people and start fucking them off before I have even started!! :)
Title: Re: Tor PM + Encryption (Newbie Q)
Post by: Angelology on February 19, 2012, 04:29 pm
Once you empty your inbox on torpm, the messages are gone forever. That answer your ?
Title: Re: Tor PM + Encryption (Newbie Q)
Post by: TomsWay on February 19, 2012, 05:04 pm
So in terms of getting in touch with someone over Tor PM with their request for it to be encrypted it would just mean typing a straight message and letting Tor PM do the encryption?

Guess given my example it is one for HappyHippy to determine really.
Title: Re: Tor PM + Encryption (Newbie Q)
Post by: happyhippy on March 18, 2012, 09:20 pm
Just to say I ( at long last ) have PGP and my pub key is in my profile

Long live S/R  :-))

HH