Quote from: wachtwoord on June 05, 2013, 09:16:57 PM

Quote from: bitcoinbear on June 05, 2013, 08:55:25 PM

Quote from: KornShell on June 05, 2013, 08:49:09 PM

Quote from: wachtwoord on June 05, 2013, 07:22:23 PM

Quote from: KornShell on June 05, 2013, 11:09:46 AM

Quote from: DannysCam on June 04, 2013, 07:45:38 PM

wait why do you need accounts? what are you doing with them?

I would ask the same thing. It's not identity theft; it's identity switch. But in some ways it amounts to the same thing. What's up with this? It makes me totally ignore who I am reading or talking to because I have no trust in the continuity of the person's identity.

It's okay to do this, but not okay to post a link to thesilkrdotcom. Scratch my head. Go figure.

People will make GPG accounts and sign messages that really need proven authenticy. For example here is my GPG sig: http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewgpg.php?nick=wachtwoord

I still don't get it. What is a GPG account?

A public/private cryptography pair. If you want to understand bitcoins, you should really first understand cryptography. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography

Indeed nice to read. Also check out: http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html

Practically speaking, because of my public/private key pair (of which the public one is public and the private one only known to me):

1) Sign a message, proving I am the author
2) Someone can encrypt a message using my public key that only I can decrypt (event he sender cannot!)

All this requires me to keep my private key secure though

(This is the same system that is used in Bitcoin)

Okay; the Wiki article is easy enough to understand. But it still -- at least to me -- does not explain why someone would buy a bitcointalk account. To generate gpg key pairs?? Why? What's the point? To impersonate a board member?