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Keybase launches encrypted Git

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Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

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Post by chipx86 »

chipx86 wrote: post #165
malgorithms wrote: post #24

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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…

Throwing my "I It seems to me that there's a lot of product opportunities in the corporate world that go beyond what Keybase is providing today. Chat and Git are interesting, but there's already a lot of momentum in both these areas. Been thinking how I use encryption and where things fall short today. One of those areas is build signing and hardware key management for our team. Everything that goes on our servers ge…

A team-based 1Password-type service would also be interesting, particularly one allowing heavy use of 2-factor authentication with something like a Yubikey.

Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

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Post by woolvalley »

notheguyouthink wrote: post #86
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…

Piggybacking off of the original question, I too have a question in this scope: With all the products you're offering, is there any indication which products will be staples of Keybase? Eg, I'm always hesitant of the "Google Product", where something gets added only to be abandoned ~1yr later after it doesn't gain the traction the company expected. For example, I'd love to get my wife and I switched to Keybase Chat f…

Why not use signal?

Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

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Post by Zpalmtree »

chias wrote: post #157
eropple wrote: post #23

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For sure. I would give them my ten bucks a month for the 100GB I get for free .

IIRC we get 10 gigs for free... unless that changed at some point?

>You can have as many repositories as you want, but the total for your personal repositories can't exceed 100GB.

Maybe this applies only for the git?

Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

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Post by quadrangle »

falsedan wrote: post #40
quadrangle wrote: post #33

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Branches are Git objects. Incidentally, here's a distributed VCS that includes bug tracking: https://fossil-scm.org

> Branches are Git objects That's not how I understand refs, they don't even live in the .git/objects hierarchy.

I guess I don't understand what GitHub/GitLab does that makes branches different from Git itself (which seemed to be the claim I was replying to).

Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

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Post by FullyFunctional »

mlindner wrote: post #151
eridius wrote: post #105

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If you're syncing the repository itself (e.g. over Dropbox) instead of using git remotes, then it could be exploited.

Why the hell would you do that. That defeats the point of git.

No it doesn't. I have many of my git repos in Dropbox but I'm not using Dropbox for sharing. Having those in Dropbox means I get automatic backup and that they are available when I switch to a different computer, which I do, but not frequently. As only I use my Dropbox account, I'm aware of the potential sync problem, but it's never been a problem. I do run fsck & gc more frequently than most, but I probably don't need to.

EDIT: I should emphasize that this model is way more convenient than manually having to remember to push and pull all the time. Now push is only for publishing outside as it should be.

Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

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Post by brazzledazzle »

malgorithms wrote: post #24
eropple wrote: post #10

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So I love Keybase unconditionally and if you guys weren't rolling in physical offices (and not one in Boston) I'd have been beating down your door to come work there--I think what Keybase is doing is important and it's something I'd love to work on. But I have a serious question that maybe you can answer, and it's something everybody who I've showed this to has asked me: How is Keybase gonna make money? How am I assu…

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…

I'm (unfortunately, at times) intimately familiar with what big corporate IT departments look for in terms of features, authentication, RBAC, auditing, etc., etc. in "Enterprise" products and if you need it I'd be willing to help you understand what we look for and why. Feel free to drop me a line. Either way, I love what you're doing and I hope you nail it.

Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

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Post by sigjuice »

kristianp wrote: post #167
therealmarv wrote: post #160

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It's basically new closed source one bucket crypto on one company which is not known for storage. A little bit too much of uncertainty for my taste.

A large portion of their code is open source: https://github.com/keybase

How easy is it to build and run my own copy of this code, especially the server side stuff?
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