Manual

This is a message board where you can write things for others to read.

Features You May Recognize

• Write messages anonymously and under a profile
• Read messages others have already posted
• Vote on posted messages to improve quality

These Features May Be Confusing At First

• Your profile key lives on your device, not on this website or server.
• This means that you own your profile, not this website or server.
• This entire forum can be exported, migrated, cloned, and forked, without restriction.
• Your profile stays on your device, and you can use it between any other forums.
• Using the same profile on multiple devices and/or backing it up requires copying and pasting of a large blob of text.

Known Issues aka Features

• Actions sometimes do not take effect immediately.
• Confusing interface.

You will need to generate a key and then sign your messages. Piece of cake.

Read This First

GnuPG
https://www.gnupg.org/

Read the GnuPG home page to familiarize yourself.

Android

OpenKeychain
https://www.openkeychain.org/about/

Apple iOS, iPhone, iPad

PGP Everywhere
http://pgpeverywhere.com/

Apple macOS

GPG Suite
https://gpgtools.org/

Microsoft Windows

Gpg4Win
https://www.gpg4win.org/

More Options

OpenPGP Software
https://www.openpgp.org/software/

You can post your messages anonymously. Anonymous posting is very easy. Why even bother creating a profile?

• All your posts will appear on your author page.
• You can sign your posts with your name.
• You can edit or delete your posts later.
• You will get a colorful avatar that will appear with all your posts.

You will need to create a key pair. Look for this option in your software and use it. (More detailed guides to come.)

GPG is traditionally used for email, but you do not have to provide your address for this forum. In fact, we recommend that you either leave the field blank or add gibberish to it. Otherwise, your email address will be accessible by anyone, including spambots.

The key pair is stored on your device. If it is important to you, keep it safe, and back it up.

To write something under your new profile, you will need to sign your text.

First, write the text that you want to post. Once you have finished writing it, save it to a .txt file.

Look for the command to "Sign" (not encrypt) your text in your GPG software.

Some software has no such option. In this case, you should use the "Encrypt" command, but ensure that the "To:" field is blank.

You should end up with a big block of text that begins with "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----"

Copy this entire block of text, including the ----- part, and submit it via the Write page.

That's it!

Look for the option to export your public key in your software.

You should end up with a block of text that starts with "-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----".

Copy the whole thing, including the ----- part, and submit it via the Write page.

You have now aliased your name to your key fingerprint.

Introduction

Commands are in the form of simple tokens, length-constricted, ASCII only.

Adding a Vote

Voting is the process of applying a tag to an item.

item + tag = vote

A voting token has the following parameters

addvote/hash/time/tag/checksum

The checksum is generated on the server, using the following formula:

The secret string is stored in config/secret, and a random one is automatically generated if the config is empty.

Example:

addvote/7e2418eda7c43c163b4cd426e9d5c26f1c8d8217/1544163475/agree/a4f883323400d18acc6c0f6fe625b6aa<br> addvote/<item hash>/<time>/<tag>/<checksum>

Check GPG Version

gpg --version

If you don't have GnuPG installed, go here: https://www.opengpg.org/

Generate Key Pair

gpg --gen-key

Export Public Key

gpg --armor --export

Sign Message in Text File

gpg --clearsign example.txt

Sign Message After Typing It

gpg --clearsign

Start typing your message. When you're finished, press Enter, then ^D (Ctrl+D).

You can easily clone this message board.

There are no "secrets" stored here (e.g. passwords, private keys, password hashes), except the anti-CSRF salt.

Any signing accounts are controlled by the users' private keys.

An hourly zip of the entire site can be downloaded here: /hike.zip, including the git repo.

The scripts are on GitHub here: github.com/gulkily/hike.