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Keybase launches encrypted Git

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Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

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Post by HarfTarf »

QuinnWilton wrote: post #81
malgorithms wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We believe the right long-term answer for Keybase is finding a way to charge large corporations and offer pretty much everything else for free. Obviously there would have to be some paid tier if you really wanted 10TB of storage or something, but very few people want that right now. We're still just getting started. Of course to achieve our goal, we'll also have to find a way to distinguish communities - which we'll…

Everything you just said makes perfect sense. That being said, I think Keybase is one of the most important companies around right now. I would gladly pay $10/month, even if literally all it did was put a "Supporter" badge on my profile. I'm sure hundreds of other people agree. Crypto is far too important for it to remain locked away behind GPG.

I too would pay for a "supporter badge".

Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

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Post by aeorgnoieang »

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #13

My first initial gut thought is, could this be as a good ol cross platform method of password management? I've never been able to properly manage keepass due to syncing between different platforms being a pain.

Yes, it is. I'm already doing something similar with this Git encrypted remote helper:

- https://github.com/spwhitton/git-remote-gcrypt

Pass is a password manager that uses Git (or, rather, can use Git; it's optional) and I use the above-linked helper to configure a common remote repo (that's hosted in Dropbox) for all of my local copies of my password repo.

Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

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Post by jsjohnst »

seanlane wrote: post #91
chishaku wrote: post #22

In case you're wondering... > ~ Anticipated q's ~ > What if we're living in a simulation? > Keybase offers no guarantees against sophisticated side-channel attacks by higher-level entities.

It appears that this may no longer be an open question: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/physicists-confirm... There was a Hacker News post about this a few days ago, likely from a different source, but I can't find it.

I remember reading something a decade or so ago which said that to simulate the entire known universe, even using selective windowing, would require more energy than the entire universe has. Wish I could remember the source.

Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

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Post by ofek »

notheguyouthink wrote: post #43

As an aside, does key base offer tools to encrypt data from code, lets say from Python/Go/Rust/etc, that is moron proof? I say tools, because while a library would be cool, I'd understand if it was a binary/application to provide the functionality/user-experience that key base is aiming for. I know this likely doesn't sound like something key base should be aiming for, but to me, programmers need encryption just as m…

This is a perfect use case for https://github.com/ofek/privy

Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

#136

Post by aeorgnoieang »

dorfsmay wrote: post #115

I'm confused. Is the entire repo encrypted, or some files only? If the former, what are case where this is needed?

The entire repo is encrypted.

Consider a repo containing passwords. It's easy enough to encrypt the files containing the passwords but the names of the files or even the directories in which they're located are also info you might wish to hide, e.g. that you have an account at some-site-you-do-not-want-anyone-to-know-you-visit.com.

Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

#137

Post by malgorithms »

QuinnWilton wrote: post #81
malgorithms wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We believe the right long-term answer for Keybase is finding a way to charge large corporations and offer pretty much everything else for free. Obviously there would have to be some paid tier if you really wanted 10TB of storage or something, but very few people want that right now. We're still just getting started. Of course to achieve our goal, we'll also have to find a way to distinguish communities - which we'll…

Everything you just said makes perfect sense. That being said, I think Keybase is one of the most important companies around right now. I would gladly pay $10/month, even if literally all it did was put a "Supporter" badge on my profile. I'm sure hundreds of other people agree. Crypto is far too important for it to remain locked away behind GPG.

The outpouring of positive energy (on HN!) is really inspiring. Everyone on the Keybase team is feeling good about our work right now, so thanks!

Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

#138

Post by petetnt »

pkamb wrote: post #122
eridius wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitHub pull requests actually are exposed as git objects (not the comments though, just the commits that make up the PR). If you want to see the commits in PR #515 you can just `git fetch origin pull/515/head`, or `git fetch origin pull/515/merge` to get the merge commit GitHub created when testing if your PR can be merged into the target branch.

Is this possible if the PR is coming from a fork?

It is.

Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

#139

Post by QuinnWilton »

malgorithms wrote: post #137
QuinnWilton wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything you just said makes perfect sense. That being said, I think Keybase is one of the most important companies around right now. I would gladly pay $10/month, even if literally all it did was put a "Supporter" badge on my profile. I'm sure hundreds of other people agree. Crypto is far too important for it to remain locked away behind GPG.

The outpouring of positive energy (on HN!) is really inspiring. Everyone on the Keybase team is feeling good about our work right now, so thanks!

The team seriously deserves it.

For what it's worth, I think my above comment is my highest upvoted comment of all time. There's a lot of people out there who want Keybase to succeed.

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