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Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

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Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

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Post by plttn »

Osmium wrote: post #55

Congratulations on the release! Been waiting for this one :) Requests to any Keybase devs reading this: * UI to disable the macOS app from auto-launching on login (slightly user hostile not to be able to have this option, also asking permission before putting something in my Finder sidebar would be nice, useful though it may be!) * Not sure if there's a technical reason for this, but it would be nice to be able to li…

Not affiliated with Keybase:

The whole point of Keybase is we don't have to trust Keybase (as a company). The proofs have to be independently verifiable, and an oAuth login wouldn't be.

Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

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Post by OJFord »

malgorithms wrote: post #8

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 miss…

> the ability to browse your encrypted files (KBFS)

I'm really looking forward to that. I use something I cobbled together for password management that's completely backed by KBFS [Passbase] and I haven't worked on it much, but the main gripe I have is the difficulty in using my passwords in Android apps. Web apps are fine, Chrome syncs the password so I just login once from a computer, but any app is a painful `passbase read appname > /Drive/tmp.txt` and open-copy-switchapp-paste experience via Google Drive.

That's a long introductory way of saying: KBFS on phones will be fantastic - but I've long intended to move my (pretty much personal use only, but still) app to using a database rather than raw files, so is there any plan for programmatic access to KBFS for other apps? I realise there are non-trivial issues concerning permissions there, but it could be really great - perhaps silo other apps from full access, e.g. 'App is requesting access to KBFS/Appname, approve?' and 'App is requesting access to KBFS/none-of-its-business, approve?'?

[Passbase]: https://github.com/OJFord/passbase

Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

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malgorithms wrote: post #8

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 miss…

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Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

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Post by tallclair »

malgorithms wrote: post #8

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 miss…

> exists on all 5 platforms (iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, and Windows)

How about Chromebooks?

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