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Introducing the Keybase filesystem

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Re: Introducing the Keybase filesystem

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Post by toomuchtodo »

icebraining wrote: post #130
toomuchtodo wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> or find someone reliable to pin it for you. The Internet Archive will eventually be the "pin" of last resort.

For encrypted personal files?

No, this was IPFs being discussed (content addressable web).

Re: Introducing the Keybase filesystem

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Post by volaski »

lisper wrote: post #119
volaski wrote: post #104

Maybe it's because I am not a keybase user, but can somebody explain this product in human terms? I am not an idiot, and it does sound interesting, but the post is too long and I just want to know what makes it unique compared to dropbox, etc. in one sentence.

This is DropBox with secure digital signatures and end-to-end encryption integrated into it in a easily accessible way.

what confused me was how they say they are not a sync service. I am still confused.

Re: Introducing the Keybase filesystem

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Post by StavrosK »

cyphar wrote: post #126
StavrosK wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A bit offtopic, but what do you like about Zcash, and what's different from Bitcoin?

Zcash is an actually anonymous cryptocurrency (BitCoin is not, since senders and receivers are public). The crypto is definitely impressive (which it is, it uses zero knowledge proofs -- which are really cool math -- for a lot of its sending operations).

I see, thanks! I'll look more into it, it sounds interesting.

By the way, how did you manage to install Keybase FS? It won't work for me at all.

Re: Introducing the Keybase filesystem

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Post by eridius »

This is really cool.

Since this is a filesystem that streams data on demand, how does it behave under poor network conditions? I'm also curious how much data it caches locally, e.g. if I'm on a laptop and lose wifi for an hour, how much of the data in the keybase filesystem can I reasonably continue to access?

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