The intent of the plugin is to enable users to encrypt Private Messages on esk8.news. While this function has been tested by Discourse Meta team the local staff has not had the opportunity to validate the functionality.
Please consider this an effort as it is intended - an attempt to improve privacy across the forum - but treat the tool as a beta function until we have some real experience with it in production.
Details on Discourse Encrypt can be found here:
Eager to hear feedback on your experience with Discourse Encrypt on esk8.news
For those who are having “PM Encrypt Remorse” here is how to disable the function:
If you select “deactivate encryption” it will do the following:
Invalidate the keys installed on your device(s)
Remove the user or hide secure messages from the user
Prevent the user from the ability to send or receive secure messages
baseline images of how it works with encryption enabled
Default with enabled
Default manually disable encrypt
Default message user who does not have encrypt enabled
Disable and remove encrypted messages (not massages that would be weird)
go to your account>preferences
scroll to the bottom and click “Deactivate Encryption on this Device”
Select the hamburger next to “Activate Encrypted Messages” and select “Reset Encryption Key Pair”
hit save
Default after encrypt PM is disabled
now someone should NOT be able to initiate a new encrypted message with you.
Here is a screen shot of what it looks should look like after you have “RESET ENCRYPTION KEY PAIR” and someone attempts to initiate a secure message
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longhairedboy
removed this banner . It will no longer appear at the top of every page.
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