holy molasses batman. Great app but you have to be hella patient!
Keybase is out for iPhone, Android
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Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android
#42Oh great... the application is not available in France (!). GooglePlay refuses to let me download the app. And the website does not provide a direct link to the apk (only direct links to desktop apps). Will I have to download the app from dubious third-party stores ? :-(
As I read France set very troublesome restrictions for any software which uses cryptography. As I remember it requires some kind of approval from government, assignment of special code based on documents you provide via mail. And it takes up to 4 month.
Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, PGP, RetroShare and other are freely available in France.
Most notably PGP has been available in France for decade and has never received any form of approval as far as I know.
Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android
#43Keybase is amazing, and I'll be installing it on my mobile device. It really makes crypto a lot more approachable for average users. Their chat is great, and I'd been looking forward to the mobile app.
On desktop my only complaint so far is that they keep trying to jam everything into a single app. I think they could break things up into three separate apps: core, chat, and KBFS. Personally, I have no use for KBFS and I wish I could disable it. It's also slightly buggy on macOS, and it causes a warning messages to show when restarting.
Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android
#44Oh great... the application is not available in France (!). GooglePlay refuses to let me download the app. And the website does not provide a direct link to the apk (only direct links to desktop apps). Will I have to download the app from dubious third-party stores ? :-(
As I read France set very troublesome restrictions for any software which uses cryptography. As I remember it requires some kind of approval from government, assignment of special code based on documents you provide via mail. And it takes up to 4 month.
And Keybase desktop apps are freely downloadable from French IPs, so... ?
Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android
#45Oh 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 miss…
Any chance to be able to prove also my own Google+ profile?
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#46does your messages only get stored on the senders and recivers device or even on a keybase server?
Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android
#47Oh 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 miss…
I've had the hardest time with keybase because on my Mac I have multiple user accounts (one for each client I have) and I started experiencing all kinds of permissions conflicts - and then I had trouble uninstalling. Have you tried testing it out for these kinds of environments?
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
They have a blog post of their key model. [0] If you lose your device you shouldn't have to re-prove your identity on all services just any that you proved using that particular key. [0] https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-new-key-model
Almost 100% correct :-) First part: if you lose or wipe a phone and want to reprovision, the lost device's private key is GONE. It will not exist in some icloud backup. When you provision your new device, the Keybase app will make fresh keys. To make that device yours, you'll need to either (a) bring together another keybase device, or (b) enter a paper key. When you do that, the old key will sign your newly generate…
Re the final point: Was it like this from the beginning? I still have some identities signed by my original PGP key with which I signed up to Keybase https://keybase.io/azag0/graph
Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android
#49Oh 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 miss…
I've had the hardest time with keybase because on my Mac I have multiple user accounts (one for each client I have) and I started experiencing all kinds of permissions conflicts - and then I had trouble uninstalling. Have you tried testing it out for these kinds of environments?
Is there a way to mount the filesystem not on /keybase?
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#50I can't get my friends to use Telegram or anything remotely better than sms or Google hangouts. I hope keybase finds the critical mass that's needed to make these things work.