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echolock

Member

Registered: 2026-05-27

Posts: 2

Who Can See What.

Hi,
I was just wondering. When you do a trade on  Black ops. Can the website see your address? Or is it just the vendor? Is the address encrypted to the vendor?
Thanks for the help.

EnragedButGauged

Member

Registered: 2026-04-11

Posts: 19

Re: Who Can See What.

i always make a point of adding my address through a PGP message to the vendor's PGP.

So instead of entering my address in the "shipping details" section, i paste the PGP message.

There is no way anyone (including the website host) can decrypt a PGP message if they do not own or have access to, the private key.

Some markets say it is "encrypted automatically" to the vendor. This is fine, but i still only put a PGP message rather than my own personal data.

If it is encrypted between the marketplace and the vendor, they may have to decrypt two messages, but thats ok in my opinion.

I am not a vendor, i am an ocassional buyer lol

Xar777

Member

Registered: 2026-01-13

Posts: 25

Re: Who Can See What.

If you submit your address in plain text without encrypting it first on your own computer then yes the market can fully see your address!

Now any reputable market should take any plain text addresses and automatically encrypt them with the vendors public key and discard the plain text data, but even if the market does auto-encrypt your address for you if the market is seized or the vendor account is compromised then LE will have access to your address.

The correct way to deal with this is to learn PGP, it's really not that hard and everyone here really should invest in learning this to stay safe.

Install some opensource PGP software on your computer and learn how to do your own encryption and decryption. Then when you need to send sensitive info to a vendor (like your address) you can encrypt it on your end and remain safe (as only the vendor can decrypt it). You can also then decrypt info the vendor might need to send to you like tracking codes. Taking PGP into your own hands also offers other benefits besides greatly increased security like being able to PGP verify vendors in the future when markets exit, etc.

kiwismurf

Member

Registered: 2026-04-19

Posts: 22

Re: Who Can See What.

If you have a chrome browser or similar you can download an extension called PGP tools which makes it super easy to encrypt & decrypt PGP messages.  It's pretty much copy and paste. 

Some will say that there's OPSEC issues because your using an extension but if your new to PGP it can be quite daunting, this is an easy way to start getting to grips with it. 

Plus unless your looking at dodgy sites every day, it's slim chances that your extension will get compromised.

TheWarehouse

Banned

Registered: 2026-05-27

Posts: 28

Re: Who Can See What.

If you have a chrome browser or similar you can download an extension called PGP tools which makes it super easy to encrypt & decrypt PGP messages.  It's pretty much copy and paste. 

Some will say that there's OPSEC issues because your using an extension but if your new to PGP it can be quite daunting, this is an easy way to start getting to grips with it. 

Plus unless your looking at dodgy sites every day, it's slim chances that your extension will get compromised.

kiwismurf - unrelated but out of curiosity, was your post under the Tor Market NZ Update topic deleted by you or admins?

Admin

Administrator

Registered: 2026-01-09

Posts: 27

Re: Who Can See What.

It was removed because it wasn't relevant to the post and was just trying to stir drama, it can go under /viewtopic.php?id=20375 instead if you wish to continue the TM discussion.