#12406705, By Coughthulu PM's being disabled

Coughthulu 19 Mar 2019 11:09:10 224 posts
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There is another, not particularly nice, way round this.

Create a GPG keypair (private and public), post your public key in the forum for the user who you want to PM (they do the same for you).

Person 'PM'ing you GPG encrypts the message for you using the public key on their machine, then posts it in a normal, public forum post (so to everyone else it looks like garbage), you decrypt it locally using your private key. Badda bing, no issue for EG storing data they could potentially be liable for.

Could even be turned into a pretty simple browser plugin, so that you could encrypt/decrypt messages without any extra hassle, based on localStorage keyrings and encrypted posts for you just show up as decrypted text. Everything'd be handled on the client side.

Someone ever gets hold of your private key, of course, you're hosed, but then that's on you, not EG, as the data's still encrypted on their servers.

Maybe I'm overthinking this...