Quote from: The Pharmacist on Today at 03:44:28 PM

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on December 09, 2020, 10:36:52 PM

I don't see any major flaws with your set up, other than the fact it is massively over thinking the problem.

But I give him props for thinking about stuff like this, and even if the solution is overly complex it's something that's interesting to me. I have no idea what a 10 minute e-mail is, but I'm pretty sure I know what the concept is and that something like that exists (I don't stray far on the internet; I'm a hermit inside a hermit).

I don't have any operations with members of the forum I need to keep secret, so this kinda-sorta doesn't apply to me. The creativity of encrypting messages has sparked my interest, and I wish I knew more about cryptography....but alas, it would be like learning a new language for me. Protonmail will have to suffice.

Right. Good to know.
The story:

I posted comments on a news site which didn't have PM or similar possibilities to contact other users privately. Omit the encryption and eavesdropping issues for now, please.
So i asked myself how to let a single user (or multiple users) - who probably have low knowledge in computer science and encryption - know that he should write an email to me if he/she/they would be ok with that. I had to take in account that literally every other commenter could write me fun mails in the like of "hey, it's me, what's up", and i felt generally uncomfortable to leave an email address of mine on the interweb just like so (for reasons and tradition - don't ask please). That's when the idea was born.
10 minute mail addresses are webmail accounts that get deleted if you don't show activity for 10 minutes. Perfect for registering on "freebie" websites, without letting them sell your email to the spam-marketing army.
An email addy i can forget about, nobody will ever be able to bug me through it after use. I just had to make sure that i don't reply to funny clowns that pretend to be the user i wanted to get into direct contact with. That was the birth of the random number, which the user posts in a comment on the news site, right after sending his email address to the 10 minute address i created for this atomic purpose.
end of story.

Like it or leave it Grin

I'd just thought it could be useful for somebody here, not restricted to bitcointalk ("here's PM, dude!"), which i'm aware that it's not exactly on-topic in meta. I apologize for my ignorance Wink