Any thoughts on Keybase's part on getting into the password management space? Seems like the infrastructure is all there.
Official Keybase extension for Chrome
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Re: Official Keybase extension for Chrome
#12Stopped using Keybase after installing the windows graphical interface and it became increasingly intrusive to my daily workflow. I only login to keybase to obtain secrets from co-workers. If you don't login to keybase, quitting the interface on windows is extremely annoying and embedded deep in a custom right click interface. Then, once it has been quit, after some time it will randomly start again asking you to sig…
I think this had only happened once to me, but I rarely sign out or close Keybase so I wouldn't be one to experience it frequently.
Are you sure you are quitting the program and not closing the program? Many programs nowadays continue to run in the background after clicking close but do not actually quit the program, seemingly confusing the close button with the minimize button. I think Keybase does this but I'm not home to test.
Most of the programs I'm aware of that do this terrible behavior are chat programs (Discord, Slack, maybe Keybase, maybe Teamspeak, Skype, etc.) and on most of these it can be disabled in the settings somewhere to actually quit the program when you close it.
Re: Official Keybase extension for Chrome
#13Hey HN, I'm the primary developer of the extension, let me know if anyone has questions. We've been experimenting with a bunch of different ideas and features—most of them you can enable/disable in the extension's "options". We launched a Reddit-focused extension last month but this release embraces all of the social networks that we support. I'll be writing up a blog post soon, particularly about how we use the WebE…
Would it be possible to upload an extension for Opera? I believe the platform is essentially identical.
The ultimate goal is to support any browser that implements the standard WebExtension API. Right now we're doing rapid prototyping so we're sticking to just Chrome for the time being, but more browsers will come as soon as we figure out what we want to stick with. :)
Re: Official Keybase extension for Chrome
#14Hey HN, I'm the primary developer of the extension, let me know if anyone has questions. We've been experimenting with a bunch of different ideas and features—most of them you can enable/disable in the extension's "options". We launched a Reddit-focused extension last month but this release embraces all of the social networks that we support. I'll be writing up a blog post soon, particularly about how we use the WebE…
Hey! I've been following the Keybase for some time and I really like the idea behind this project.
I installed the extension in my browser and now whenever I hit the "keybase chat" button I get the message "You need the Keybase app to send chat messages." The keybase desktop app obviously runs fine in the background.
Browser: Version 58.0.3029.110 Built on Ubuntu, running on Ubuntu 17.04 (64-bit)
Btw: Would you consider putting the Android app on F-Droid?
Re: Official Keybase extension for Chrome
#15Hey HN, I'm the primary developer of the extension, let me know if anyone has questions. We've been experimenting with a bunch of different ideas and features—most of them you can enable/disable in the extension's "options". We launched a Reddit-focused extension last month but this release embraces all of the social networks that we support. I'll be writing up a blog post soon, particularly about how we use the WebE…
I built my own chrome extension using keybase over a year ago, which I called AnyCrypt:
http://lettergram.github.io/AnyCrypt/
I use it with a few friends, it isn't super secure (in the sense I store people's private key locally). The real issue I had was two fold:
1. You guys really didn't want me pulling the private key from your servers. Although it was possible, I had to decode all the work you guys did, which sucked.
2. It wasn't seemless, i.e. I had to do some right clicking.
The one benefit I see on my current method, is I can use any chat to communicate. I already use signal, have encrypted emails, etc. So what do I gain using this extension?
Re: Official Keybase extension for Chrome
#16I've been trying out this extension for a few days. What I would really like to see from this extension is a 1-click way to sign any message I'm writing, anywhere on the internet. Along with that would be the ability to verify that a keybase signature found in the wild belongs to a particular keybase user. Then I can initiate out-of-band discussions with the author of a comment on someone's blog, not just with a Redd…
I would like the same functionality and I would love if it supported encryption as well as signing.
Re: Official Keybase extension for Chrome
#17Stopped using Keybase after installing the windows graphical interface and it became increasingly intrusive to my daily workflow. I only login to keybase to obtain secrets from co-workers. If you don't login to keybase, quitting the interface on windows is extremely annoying and embedded deep in a custom right click interface. Then, once it has been quit, after some time it will randomly start again asking you to sig…
I think this had only happened once to me, but I rarely sign out or close Keybase so I wouldn't be one to experience it frequently. Are you sure you are quitting the program and not closing the program? Many programs nowadays continue to run in the background after clicking close but do not actually quit the program, seemingly confusing the close button with the minimize button. I think Keybase does this but I'm not…
Yes, quitting the application completely, closing it just minimizes to the taskbar context menu, from there you can right click, the custom interface shows, click the hamburger menu, click quit. I completely quit every time for it to randomly start afterwards.
Re: Official Keybase extension for Chrome
#18Hey HN, I'm the primary developer of the extension, let me know if anyone has questions. We've been experimenting with a bunch of different ideas and features—most of them you can enable/disable in the extension's "options". We launched a Reddit-focused extension last month but this release embraces all of the social networks that we support. I'll be writing up a blog post soon, particularly about how we use the WebE…
Hey! I've been following the Keybase for some time and I really like the idea behind this project. I installed the extension in my browser and now whenever I hit the "keybase chat" button I get the message "You need the Keybase app to send chat messages." The keybase desktop app obviously runs fine in the background. Browser: Version 58.0.3029.110 Built on Ubuntu, running on Ubuntu 17.04 (64-bit) Btw: Would you consi…
Could you confirm which version of Keybase you're running? `keybase version`
Also, is it Chrome or Chromium?
Feel free to message me directly on Keybase if you'd prefer: https://keybase.io/shazow
[Edit: In case anyone is curious, this has been resolved by restarting Chromium.]
Re: Official Keybase extension for Chrome
#19Hey HN, I'm the primary developer of the extension, let me know if anyone has questions. We've been experimenting with a bunch of different ideas and features—most of them you can enable/disable in the extension's "options". We launched a Reddit-focused extension last month but this release embraces all of the social networks that we support. I'll be writing up a blog post soon, particularly about how we use the WebE…
I built my own chrome extension using keybase over a year ago, which I called AnyCrypt: http://lettergram.github.io/AnyCrypt/ I use it with a few friends, it isn't super secure (in the sense I store people's private key locally). The real issue I had was two fold: 1. You guys really didn't want me pulling the private key from your servers. Although it was possible, I had to decode all the work you guys did, which suc…
Hey, AnyCrypt looks cool!
Sorry to hear about your troubles reversing the key infrastructure. I'm not involved in that part of Keybase, but if you'd like to discuss it further I can put you in touch with the right people if you PM me.
Regarding what you're gaining with the extension: Our goal with the extension is to improve workflows for Keybase power users, and generally make it a little more user friendly/convenient in some scenarios.
As to what you gain from using Keybase: It's a much more sophisticated product than Signal or encrypted emails. A core proposition is cross-verified social proofs. You can Keybase chat with shazow@twitter and have a strong guarantee that it's also shazow@hackernews. The way Keybase does key management and device provisioning is very cool too. And did I mention file storage and sharing? And more coming soon!
Re: Official Keybase extension for Chrome
#20Gave it a try. I like deeper integration with social services, but I'm not too excited that it's primarily just a shortcut to the app's chat feature (which I don't really use, honestly).
I was hoping that it would let me send signed/encrypted tweets, or Gmail messages right on the page. Is that within the scope of the project, or is everything meant to happen from within the app?