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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: Pharmville on September 24, 2011, 04:28 am

Title: ***PHARMVILLE'S FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING PGP PROBLEM & SOLUTION***
Post by: Pharmville on September 24, 2011, 04:28 am
Hello everyone,

I think all of our good customers will be happy to know that we have finally made some progress towards getting this situation fixed.  All of what seemed to be the "obvious" solutions ended up being very time consuming and time wasting blind alleys.  We now have a choice of three real fixes and we are studying each of them to decide which one is the best for the long term.  For security purposes, I am not going to say any more about what the final solution will be, when it is decided upon, because it doesn't matter, it will have our PGP system up and running again and that's all that really matters. :)

The bad news is that it will take from 7-14 days for us to implement these changes BUT we have been using the TorPM system for the last 3 days as a workaround and it has been working beautifully.  We have had a few order cancellations, but only a very few, and most people are quite all right with either sending their address in cleartext thru the SR order system or sending it to us via the TorPM system.

Here is a copy of the pm we send to every buyer if they submit their order with the address PGP encoded:
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We are ready to ship your order but, as you may have seen posted in the forums, we've had issues with our PGP since we upgraded our main Mac laptop that we use to process orders and therefore we can't read your PGP message with your order.  Today Apple HQ told me that it was not advisable to reverse an OS upgrade and since GPG doesnt have a patch for ver. 10.6.8 yet we have decided to buy a used Mac and load it with the old OS so we can run PGP on it.  This whole process will take about a week so we would like to find out if you could either send your address in cleartext here OR you could send us a message at TorPM under: Pharmville36712.  If you've never used TorPM it is so basic it only takes about a minute to set up and it's totally strong and safe.  The link is at: http://4eiruntyxxbgfv7o.onion/pm/login.html

Several of our buyers have already used the TorPM option and were all quite happy with it.  And i promise we delete the message as soon as we read it.  We really don't want to delay your order for a week or to have it end up getting canceled.  We'd much rather ship it and show you what good products and packaging we have! :)

Please let us know how you would like to handle your order, thanks,
Alex & Ben
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This workaround is allowing 98.5% of all our orders to be shipped within the 24 hour window we consider to be "on time" shipping for Pharmville.  We are satisfied that this is good enough and we are not going to make any more announcements or updates regarding the PGP situation.  Of course, when the PGP is working again, I will come to the forums to let everyone know. :)

Thanks to all our buyers for their patience and understanding during what has been our most difficult period since we started selling on the Silk Road.  Last night very late we caught up on the last of our pm's and starting this morning all pm's are being answered ASAP, just as they have always been.  We do not anticipate getting behind in our communications again for any reason.  We hope to talk to each of you soon!

-Alex& Ben-
Title: Re: ***PHARMVILLE'S FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING PGP PROBLEM & SOLUTION***
Post by: ProudCannabian on October 09, 2011, 03:54 pm
I'm running Lion, 10.7 and using PGP to encrypt/decrpt...

PM me if you're interested in what I did.   ;)