Keybase 4.0

Post by randy408 » Sat, May 11, 2019, 6:21 PM UTC

781 wrote: post #9

Uninstalled because on Windows it registers itself to auto-start on boot no matter what you do. I keep removing it from the autostart places and it keeps registering back. I get it that they want to get usage telemetry, but it's ridiculous for a security focused app to force itself like that. https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/2380 https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/3904 https://github.com/keybase…

Post by lozf » Sat, May 11, 2019, 6:53 PM UTC

lousken wrote: post #7

did anyone figure out what the arrow on the top does? https://i.imgur.com/nqGfSCL.png

Post by majkinetor » Sat, May 11, 2019, 7:08 PM UTC

ahnick wrote: post #5

kevinherron wrote: post #4

Keybase is a really cool solution to a problem (or problems?) I don't seem to have. I've had an account for a while but don't really have any reason to use it. Seems like they're pivoting towards being a Slack competitor. Maybe if they open sourced the server portion it could be a chat solution that OSS projects can feel okay about using.

Keybase is a great way to do company onboarding. Have a new employee setup a Keybase account (if they don't have one already) and now you have a simple and secure way to have conversations and exchange files (e.g. W-4 forms, insurance, etc) I use it for personal communications too, so it is nice to use the same secure messaging platform for both work and personal and switch back and forth from computer to phone easil…

Post by majkinetor » Sat, May 11, 2019, 7:20 PM UTC

majkinetor wrote: post #16

ahnick wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Keybase is a great way to do company onboarding. Have a new employee setup a Keybase account (if they don't have one already) and now you have a simple and secure way to have conversations and exchange files (e.g. W-4 forms, insurance, etc) I use it for personal communications too, so it is nice to use the same secure messaging platform for both work and personal and switch back and forth from computer to phone easil…

Hm... I wonder now could it be used for corporate secret management. I wouldn't like to use cloud solution for that and on existing on premise solutions do not cover all scenarios I need (on-boarding one of them, or guests).

Post by viraptor » Sat, May 11, 2019, 10:36 PM UTC

kokx wrote: post #6

smoyer wrote: post #2

Still waiting for 2FA authentication (sigh) ... everyone but Keybase and my bank seems to know how important this is!

2FA is not very helpful if your service relies on encryption for everything (like keybase). It's not possible to use 2FA without another party verifying the authentication code. Keybase could include this (then they would have to verify it), but so far keybase has gone to great lengths to not actually have to hold any secrets for users. They even perform password hashing in the browser instead of on their servers. 2F…