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Introducing the Keybase filesystem

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Re: Introducing the Keybase filesystem

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Post by fweespeech »

jgrahamc wrote: post #3
rdl wrote: post #2

I've been using this for a couple weeks. Along with Zcash, it is the most amazing crypto-engineering project I've seen in years. Imagine being able to share files on an ad hoc basis with anyone -- on any network. Share with someone based on Twitter, on Facebook, or email address. Even better, all with cryptographic proofs of identity, strong crypto at every level, and open source.

Came here to say pretty much the same thing. It's slick and easy to use. It's actually the 'dropbox' I've always wanted and if they introduce a storage limit I'd pay. https://keybase.io/jgrahamc

Yeah. 1 GB Free + $.XX per additional GB would probably be the best model for them, at least looking at it from the outside.

Re: Introducing the Keybase filesystem

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Post by sjs382 »

I wonder if you can tail a file, to create an ad-hoc encrypted messaging channel like:

    Read your messages: tail -f /keybase/private/yourname/inbox.log
    Send a message to someone: echo 'Hi, friend!' >> /keybase/private/yourfriend/inbox.log
And I wonder how it handles filename collisions? Guess I'm going to need to play with this a bit later. :)

Re: Introducing the Keybase filesystem

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Post by manyoso »

mbrock wrote: post #9
toomuchtodo wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So IPFS with cryptography? Although, since Keybase still has a copy of the data, its closer to Dropbox with crypto. https://ipfs.io

I don't think it's distributed in the IPFS fashion, right? Which makes sense, of course, since Keybase is a funded startup that needs to capture value... and, well, centralized file sharing is a more straightforward solution, too. The file system thing seems really cool and useful. I'm a fan of Keybase and will recommend this to people with whom I need to share sensitive data. It'd be interesting to hear the Keybase…

Which makes it pretty much boring from my perspective. Give me The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) -> https://ipfs.io/

Re: Introducing the Keybase filesystem

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Post by mayank »

k__ wrote: post #10
rdl wrote: post #2

I've been using this for a couple weeks. Along with Zcash, it is the most amazing crypto-engineering project I've seen in years. Imagine being able to share files on an ad hoc basis with anyone -- on any network. Share with someone based on Twitter, on Facebook, or email address. Even better, all with cryptographic proofs of identity, strong crypto at every level, and open source.

Does it scale well? I mean, if I want to do some Torrent like P2P stuff, I need to... - gather public keys of all the people who want to download from me - encrypt every chunk for every person separately

The second part is usually handled by encrypting a randomly chosen symmetric cipher key using each public key, and then encrypting the file with a symmetric cipher. And I believe keybase was founded to tackle the first problem.

Re: Introducing the Keybase filesystem

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Post by hatsunearu »

manyoso wrote: post #14

Is this all centralized? How about something completely decentralized, but permanent: https://ipfs.io/ https://youtu.be/HUVmypx9HGI The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)

30 second caveats:

- You still have to host yourself, since you don't get free hosting.

- Not encrypted, so you gotta add the encryption in yourself.

Re: Introducing the Keybase filesystem

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Post by WorldMaker »

ryan-c wrote: post #8

I would be really interested to see how they're making the filesystem cross platform if they're supporting Windows. I see in their 'hiring' page they mention FUSE which would give Linux and OS X support.

I too am very interested in if they are currently supporting Windows and/or if/when they plan to. I was hoping this blog post would have at least mentioned it in passing.
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