📍 Address Encryption Guide

Your shipping address is the most sensitive piece of information you share on any darknet market. If stored in plaintext on market servers, a law enforcement seizure or database breach exposes your physical location and real identity. PGP-encrypting your address ensures that only the vendor — holder of the matching private key — can read it. Even if the market is compromised, encrypted addresses remain unreadable without the vendor private key.

Format your shipping address in a clear, standardized structure before encrypting. Include only the essential information: full name (or alias for package drops), street address, apartment/unit number, city, state/province, postal/ZIP code, and country. Avoid abbreviations that could cause delivery confusion. Add any special delivery instructions on a separate line. Encrypt the entire block with the vendor PGP public key. Verify the key fingerprint matches the one displayed on their market profile.

After encrypting your address, verify the encryption is correct by attempting to decrypt it with your own key (you should not be able to unless you added yourself as a recipient). Check that the ciphertext begins with -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- and ends with -----END PGP MESSAGE-----. Paste the encrypted block into the market order form. If the vendor reports they cannot decrypt it, verify you used the correct public key and try again.