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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: fr33r3ign43v3r on April 04, 2013, 11:41 am

Title: newbie confused and going in circles!!!!
Post by: fr33r3ign43v3r on April 04, 2013, 11:41 am
 :( Hello, trying to put this all together, but have questions.  I need steps in laymen s terms. Do I have to download thunderbird to use S.R. or can I just register a Tormail account?    Is there any other anonymous mail server besides Tormail?  I cannot register an account because I just get a "fatal error" message.  I don't want to fire too many questions out at once, but want to complete each step before proceeding to "where I download a PGP for non-computer savvy people".   Thanks for any help.
Title: Re: newbie confused and going in circles!!!!
Post by: 4tron on April 04, 2013, 11:58 am
I love your handle. How do you remember that? :)

Firstly everything you need to know is all here. You just need some read-time.

I would go with somthing "off the shelf" if I were starting out again. Like TAILS, for instance, has almost all you need.

You can change later.
Title: Re: newbie confused and going in circles!!!!
Post by: BTC4CASH UK on April 04, 2013, 12:01 pm
Tormail is out of action at the moment, keep checking the forums for updates :)
Title: Re: newbie confused and going in circles!!!!
Post by: kittenfluff on April 04, 2013, 12:12 pm
You don't need thunderbird and can login to your tormail through TorBrowser (probably safer), but tormail is down and has been for several days. I have been considering hushmail or s-mail, but don't really know anything about them, I just searched 'secure email' today to organise a backup for tormail.... else, I may create a new email with someone common with fake details and simply manually encrypt all my mail with PGP... It's much more important to get PGP right, so I would research that first...
Title: Re: newbie confused and going in circles!!!!
Post by: 4tron on April 04, 2013, 12:25 pm
Hushmail has a bit of a history, use with care.

You should be able to use the same platform that brought you here to access SR....?

I'm missing something.....time for a cone

Title: Re: newbie confused and going in circles!!!!
Post by: 3AdYSv7bW8Nu5XfZ0I8W on April 04, 2013, 12:43 pm
why would you need tormail for SR?
Title: Re: newbie confused and going in circles!!!!
Post by: 4tron on April 04, 2013, 12:51 pm
Hey 3AdYSv7bW8Nu5XfZ0I8W Like your user name....looks like a short wallet. :)

Where's the OP?


Title: Re: newbie confused and going in circles!!!!
Post by: TheSauceIsHot on April 04, 2013, 12:58 pm
why would you need tormail for SR?

I agree.  I have yet to email a vendor.  Just figure out PGP.
Title: Re: newbie confused and going in circles!!!!
Post by: CannabisCrew on April 04, 2013, 01:20 pm
Get a USB drive with a couple of gigs. Figure out how to get TAILS running on it. Boot to your TAILS USB drive and use its keyring and PGP tools. Don't worry about Tormail so much. You could create any email account anywhere and as long as you're not storing personally identifiable information on your account, you'll be fine.

-CC
Title: Re: newbie confused and going in circles!!!!
Post by: fr33r3ign43v3r on April 06, 2013, 10:04 pm
Hey all!   Just getting back to the forum, regular life limits my time. I appreciate all the input and will start moving forward tonight.  I'm chomping @ the bit to sample some MG chronic!!!  p.s the 3's in handle are  "e"s     peace:)
Title: Re: newbie confused and going in circles!!!!
Post by: mantidman on April 06, 2013, 11:47 pm
Back when I started on SR I had some good advice from Astor.... to use gpg4USB.  Is this information still regarded as good or is there something better to use?  It is extremely simple to download and use.  Any information you would need is right there in the tools section....

As far as encryption goes you dont even need a key if you are not RECEIVING messages.  You just need the vendors public key to send your encrypted drop address to them...

And that is 50 folks... don't really see why people spam the list just to get to 50.  Is what you have to say in the other forums REALLY that important?

Eat some acid folks.... it's good for ya!

mm
Title: Re: newbie confused and going in circles!!!!
Post by: Icon on April 07, 2013, 12:21 am
 Tormail is back up! I just checked it again today and its working fine. Go make your TM account.

As for learning PGP and even tormail. There are some decent tutorials on youtube. The guy who does the pgp tutorial. uses a public key from SR, and he says "I don't know here I got this and I'm not going to say" He hides the window, but from the small part that you can see around the public key block of some seller you can totally tell is SR.