Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

Awesome, looking forward to seeing Keybase grow through mobile.

Nice! This feels like a huge leap forward for Keybase in terms of broad, daily usability. The onboarding onto the app felt pretty smooth overall, always nice when I can feel comfortable logging into a mobile app without pulling up my password manager.

This is one of those teams that I legitimately get excited when I see new announcements.

Keybase has succeeded in making crypto and user verification user-friendly enough for day to day use. (Even though it's probably not easy enough to use in day to day e-mail.)

This new mobile experience is very slick, with a very smooth login flow that just 'feels' secure as well.

The Keybase verification of different services feels very much like what ClaimID used to do, back when OpenID was showing promise as an open, secure, easy to use single sign on protocol. I'd still love for someone to solve this challenge once and for all. For some reason I'd love to see what the team behind Keybase might come up with in this space. (For now I'll have to do with using 1Password and 2FA wherever possible.)

Oh HN, so much for a soft-launch! (But thanks for all the positive comments on here.) We've been testing Keybase a lot with iOS and Android testers and we quietly released into the app stores last night. In many ways it's an MVP focusing on: (1) Keybase chat, and technically important (2) your phone acting as an additional device key, so you can easily provision new desktop computers.

There are still some things missing from the app, such as the ability to browse your encrypted files (KBFS), although the app actually has KBFS running inside it. So we're close on that front. Also, provisioning is still a bit clunky.

Possibly interesting to HN: Keybase is one of the only large apps we know of which exists on all 5 platforms (iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, and Windows) and which was programmed almost entirely in Go. Except for the chrome, which is react/react native. Source code for all platforms at https://github.com/keybase/client

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This doesn't sound too different from Signal to me other than the public directory of people thing. Is that it?