Silk Road forums

Discussion => Security => Topic started by: g01d3n on January 13, 2013, 09:40 pm

Title: How safe is my technique?
Post by: g01d3n on January 13, 2013, 09:40 pm
So when I start to make purchases, I plan to send my real name and real address via PGP encryption. Every time I make a new order, I plan to make a new public key.
Also, when I purchase bitcoins, I plan to send it from my coinbase account, to my mtgox account, back to my coinbase, then to my SR wallet.

Using these techniques, how safe am I?
Title: Re: How safe is my technique?
Post by: jnemonic on January 13, 2013, 09:54 pm
If your only making small purchases for yourself, i'd just have the coins sent directly to your SR account. SR have their own tumblers.
If you do it that way, just change your SR addy every month you'll be fine.
Title: Re: How safe is my technique?
Post by: g01d3n on January 13, 2013, 10:05 pm
I see, thank you very much. I know many vendors take security very seriously, I just want to abide by their rules to protect everyone :)
Title: Re: How safe is my technique?
Post by: awhiteknight on January 13, 2013, 10:06 pm
When you send a dealer a message you're encrypting it with their public key, yours doesn't get used unless you're signing the message (you shouldn't do that). So no need to create new keys all the time.

When sending btc to Silk Road you ought to use the official Bitcoin client and send through TOR. Send your coins from the source to your wallet, wait a couple of days then send to Silk Road. This way it looks like you've sent the coins on to someone and maybe they ended up in Silk Road's mixer (if anyone can even tell). After the coins have been sent and your wallet.dat is empty, shred && rm it.

If you just send coins immediately after 6 confirmations then there's no point in you bouncing them around, it's pretty obvious that it's the same person mixing them up.
Title: Re: How safe is my technique?
Post by: Fallkniven on January 13, 2013, 10:56 pm
I have never used a 3rd party tumbling service, i just go from my bitcoin seller to my SR wallet, i then change my SR wallet address after every transaction. There is really no point in changing your PGP key - 4096 bit keys will not be cracked for the next 10 or more years.