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New Feature: Secure Private Messages!
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The admins are always looking for ways to help ensure your guys' privacy and security. We are pleased to offer a new feature which seamlessly integrates military-grade public-key encryption with our BB's private messaging interface. This new functionality will allow you to send PMs which are virtually impossible to intercept, and can only be decrypted by the intended recipient. You can enable it on your account through a quick setup process and then it's possible to exchange secure messages with any other members who also have it enabled.

We have taken many precautions to ensure the integrity of secure private messages on the Shroomery. Our system uses standard PGP encryption and SSL is utilized for all communication with the site. We never store any sensitive information on our server and temp files are securely wiped immediately after use. From a technical standpoint, encrypted private messages are significantly more secure than regular e-mail, and offer about the same amount of privacy as Hushmail and similar services. Hopefully this will come in handy when people have sensitive correspondence which they wish to keep safe.

Follow this link to enable secure private messages on your account.

Once the process is complete, you will notice an "encrypt this message" option at the bottom of new private messages. Check this box when you're contacting another member with secure PMs enabled, and your messages will be locked down with unbreakable encryption. The recipient simply has to enter their passphrase to display the original content. If they haven't enabled secure PMs yet, you'll be given the option to send the message unencrypted. It's that simple!

Please report any problems so we can get the bugs ironed out. Also feel free to ask any questions or make suggestions about the new functionality. We hope you enjoy this feature and find it useful!

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Re: New Feature: Secure Private Messages! [Re: Ythan]
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so you used to be able to read our pm's


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Re: New Feature: Secure Private Messages! [Re: Toad_Stool]
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Yeah without a public key encryption scheme there's not really any way to prevent that. Don't flatter yourself I promise we would never bother heh. But it also means if someone gained access to our server, like a hacker or DEA agent, they could read them too. That's why we added this functionality, so you can ensure that only the intended recipient can decrypt your PM.

Peace,

-Y

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Re: New Feature: Secure Private Messages! [Re: Ythan]
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cool :thumbup:

-TS


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Re: New Feature: Secure Private Messages! [Re: Ythan]
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:thumbup: :smile:


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-Erik Davis

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Re: New Feature: Secure Private Messages! [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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I LOVE YOU


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Re: New Feature: Secure Private Messages! [Re: Ythan]
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:thumbup:

This place just keeps getting better.


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Re: New Feature: Secure Private Messages! [Re: Ythan]
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Great idea!

Also, consider making the IRC channel SSL-enabled.

:smile:

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Re: New Feature: Secure Private Messages! [Re: spank0r]
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once the intended recipient has decrypted the message, does it remain so, and accessible to your aforementioned hypothetical hackers, agents, or aliens?


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self-destructive selflessness
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alone - eyes closed - an empty room
i'm curled on the floor
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Re: New Feature: Secure Private Messages! [Re: niteowl]
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niteowl said:
:thumbup:

This place just keeps getting better.



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Re: New Feature: Secure Private Messages! [Re: IGnosticAbhorI]
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I thought privacy was illegal in the States :smirk:

I really like this new feature :thumbup:

-Gnostic


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I've provided some in my signature.
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Getting the most out of your casings!, A pinning strategy.
Soaking wbs - The Final Answer by Agar
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Re: New Feature: Secure Private Messages! [Re: spank0r]
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Quote:
Also, consider making the IRC channel SSL-enabled.


I'm all for it and I've talked to Vamp about it, the problem is we'd have to change server software but it will probably happen sometime in the future.

Quote:
once the intended recipient has decrypted the message, does it remain so, and accessible to your aforementioned hypothetical hackers, agents, or aliens?


No, the unencrypted text is never stored on the server. The recipient has to decrypt the private message every time they view it.

Anyway glad you guys like this feature so far. :smile:

Peace,

-Y

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Re: New Feature: Secure Private Messages! [Re: Ythan]
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awsome great idea guys


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Re: New Feature: Secure Private Messages! [Re: IGnosticAbhorI]
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IGnosticAbhorI said:
I thought privacy was illegal in the States :smirk:


:lol:

Quote:
I really like this new feature :thumbup:


Ythan, You are the man  :cool:

I probably gave you a hundred shroom ratings :stoned:

:sun:


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Get yours

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Re: New Feature: Secure Private Messages! [Re: Ythan]
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Awesome new feature man! Much appreciated. From what I hear PGP is near impossible to crack. :thumbup: :heart:


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Re: New Feature: Secure Private Messages! [Re: Ythan]
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Excellent new feature  :thumbup:

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Re: New Feature: Secure Private Messages! [Re: ltd]
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I never bothered to give you a rating before, because I have never witnessed your greatness. But this is awesome!
How can I tell if it is working, will the screen be any different, or take longer to load? Stupid question, I know, but I am a stupid person.


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there should be a 3 month waiting period between registration and posting. :wink:

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Re: New Feature: Secure Private Messages! [Re: whatever123]
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When someone sends you an encrypted pm you will have to enter you pass phrase to decrypt it. Thats how you will know.


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Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.
  -Mark Twain

"The time has come the walrus said, little oysters  hide their heads, my Twain of thought is loosely bound I guess its time to Mark this down, Be good and you will be lonesome
Be lonesome and you will be free
Live a lie and you will live to regret it
That's what livin' is to me
That's what livin' is to me"
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Re: New Feature: Secure Private Messages! [Re: QuantumMeltdown]
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that hasn't been the case for me so far... :undecided:


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egocentrism is bangin on the door
self-destructive selflessness
seeps out from the core
alone - eyes closed - an empty room
i'm curled on the floor
choose nothing, thus deciding
all the nothing i've in store.

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Re: New Feature: Secure Private Messages! [Re: hevvy_psi]
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Did you enable to secure PMs on your account?
http://www.shroomery.org/pubssl/


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