PSA: Check your encrypted memos

Hello Everyone,

Today I went on a wallet trail, as I find it fun to see how people use their STEEM. I found an account which accepts emails (I won't disclose it due to the nature of what I found), many of the memos has # in front of them, leading me to believe that they were intending to encrypt them, especially since some of the emails look like First & Last names.

Whenever I want to make a special transfer with encryption, I always do the following to make sure that I'm not about to throw it out into the open.

Anywhere I don't whether they support it

I'll usually try and stick to Keychain (Which I'll Explain the moment), but when using anything else, I send a memo prefaced with a # like # Test and send it to myself or someone else, then I'll wait a couple of minuites and visit https://steemd.com/@cadawg and check whether it says # Test or #<encrypted text> which looks like random text. If it says # Test, they don't support it (or have another way to enable it) so avoid it. If it has encrypted and doesn't read in plaintext at all, I'll then use that service.

Keychain Method

Keychain has an encryption checkbox, which makes me feel much happier about using it. Although, if you click the dropdown next to STEEM then it won't appear, you have to click the SEND button.

STEEM > SEND STEEM

Send

Just Check The Box

And confirm on this screen that it says (encrypted) after the memo!

Thanks, stay safe!