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Introducing the Keybase filesystem

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Re: Introducing the Keybase filesystem

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Post by bduerst »

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

Maybe this is a tangental question, but wouldn't it be relatively easy for dropbox to implement this?

Or are you saying you prefer the command line interface?

Re: Introducing the Keybase filesystem

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Post by rdl »

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

I'm looking forward to group sharing, on-premise caches, etc.

Re: Introducing the Keybase filesystem

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Post by [deleted] »

sjs382 wrote: post #15

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. :)

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Re: Introducing the Keybase filesystem

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Post by jgrahamc »

bduerst wrote: post #21
jgrahamc wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Maybe this is a tangental question, but wouldn't it be relatively easy for dropbox to implement this? Or are you saying you prefer the command line interface?

I like the social proof, I like the crypto, I like the command-line as well.

Re: Introducing the Keybase filesystem

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Post by manyoso »

hatsunearu wrote: post #19
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.

Not true. IPFS is encrypted and with pluggable PKI too!

https://youtu.be/HUVmypx9HGI?t=3210

And you do not have to host yourself once your content is distributed. That is what makes it permanent!

Re: Introducing the Keybase filesystem

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Post by sveme »

simonjgreen wrote: post #22

Plenty of invites over here if anyone would like one https://keybase.io/simonjgreen EDIT: all gone for now, but see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11037629 for more

Yes, please, that would be very welcomed: me sveme.org thanks! Edit: thanks, highly appreciated!

Re: Introducing the Keybase filesystem

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Post by josh2600 »

bduerst wrote: post #21
jgrahamc wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Maybe this is a tangental question, but wouldn't it be relatively easy for dropbox to implement this? Or are you saying you prefer the command line interface?

Given Dropbox's absolutely glacial pace of feature progression, no it would not be easy. I mean, all of dropbox runs off of one set of private keys...

https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/28

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