For e2e encrypted chat there's https://conversations.im. I've been using it for a while since it lets me bring my own domain and have been very happy. The Android client supports encryption with PGP keys and OMEMO (a double ratchet like Signal uses with some nice key trust options added on top to make it easy for novices, but configurable by experts).
Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?
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Re: Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?
#92> I myself mostly use the following features from Keybase: Chat, KBFS, Git repositories and encrypting messages sent out-of-band via PGP in Keybase (and the various cryptographic tools [signing, validation etc]) While all these features are individually nice, I kinda started to worry about Keybase as a product when they started bolting on stuff like this. I think the key (pun intended) to stable & ongoing success in…
The key differentiator of Keybase (at least back when I joined during early alpha) is that it links identities across different web properties, so that one can easily find someone’s personal site(s) or profiles on other platforms with cryptographic certainty.
AFIACT this crucial aspect is missing from keys.pub.
Re: Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also GitHub supports .keys" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ .keys
I think that's only ssh keys, not including gpg keys.
There is a messy one-liner to get public gpg keys from Github but you have to call their API and parse the JSON response using `jq` or such.
Re: Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?
#94If you just want to share your public key safely, a .well-known directory on your domain works these days: https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD
Just a quick note on WKD since I've been bitten by this a few days ago: as soon as you set it up, some people will start using your keys automatically, without even knowing it (eg. it seems that ProtonMail automatically uses keys found on a WKD to encrypt outgoing mails). While in itself it's not a bad idea, you'd better prepare for this to avoid looking stupid like me, when you receive a casual encrypted mail and yo…
Using WKD is also a good way to solicit useless “security”-related emails from people running questionable automated scanners.
Re: Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Zoom is not a Chinese company. The founder merely was born in China. He is US citizen. I am very put off by this anti-China rhetoric. Everything that even has a remote connection to China is now under suspicion. This is madness.
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You list a bunch of terms, but pretty much all of those things have a different side to the story.
I'll start with one thing, because addressing them all takes too long.
You think the Hong Kong rioters are fighting for freedom? Take a look at how they attack innocent women and elderly that simply disagree with them:
https://twitter.com/Mondayfreemary/status/125844037836732416...
Western media romanticizes the whole thing by not reporting anything about the dark side of the movement, and by cutting footage to make the rioters look like heroes: https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/125835760285075456...
Here's the real story, I've written a summary just earlier today: https://twitter.com/honglilai/status/1258294860618108928
This isn't just about one or two people who are criminals. The rioting, the violence, the hate for mainlanders (hate for PEOPLE, not just CCP) has completely taken over the movement. Heck, I don't even dare going to Hong Kong anymore -- as someone with a mainland background, I fear for my life.
Furthermore, 'Liking China but opposing CCP' is, in actuality, a statement that doesn't make much sense once you understand how the CCP - Chinese people relationship actually works: https://twitter.com/Bkerrychina/status/1253635970236375040
The CCP enjoys a pretty high level of support in China. Real support. Even many people who use VPN to use Twitter say they support the CCP. This support has grown tremendously in the past decade, in no small part thanks to all the demonization bullshit that western media tries to pull on China. Many Chinese read western media, think 'wtf is this overblown nonsense?', and end up supporting CCP more, even if they were previously neutral or slightly anti.
My point: by listing all those terms, you are painting a one-dimensional, stereotypical, overblown and distorted view of China. If you really want to help Chinese people, you gotta first understand where they come from. This begins with gaining an accurate image of what China is, not the media stereotype.
Re: Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?
#96Thanks keybase for the free 100$ worth of lumens. You'll be remembered fondly.
I totally forgot about that. Turns out I have 6000 lumens. Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?
#97What, you don't want teenagers hacking into your messages with p0rn?
Re: Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?
#98For e2e encrypted chat there's https://conversations.im . I've been using it for a while since it lets me bring my own domain and have been very happy. The Android client supports encryption with PGP keys and OMEMO (a double ratchet like Signal uses with some nice key trust options added on top to make it easy for novices, but configurable by experts).
A few days ago Conversations also learned how to make audio and video calls :-)
Re: Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?
#99Scuttlebutt is an open source p2p gossip network (no central servers) that includes clients that implement chat, blogging, git and github replacements, Shamir's Secret sharing (splitting up a secret by encrypting it so that a number of your friends are needed to decrypt, via Dark Crystal [ https://darkcrystal.pw/] ), games and probably more that I am forgetting. You could easily place your public keys in your user pr…
Just looked in the repository, looks like there is an app for it on f-droid. Do you have experience with Manyverse / would you recommend it? app https://f-droid.org/app/se.manyver / website https://www.manyver.se/
I've downloaded Manyverse from F-Droid so many times, hoping to finally use it for real...but I never could. I was particularly excited recently when an iOS app was released.
If you have a really close group of techy friends who don't mind hiccups and tinkering and don't mind a strictly non-private social medium, maybe it could work.
However, if you're trying to use it with normies, you might be disappointed. Private messages don't work at all, in my experience. Syncing with a pub server takes a couple of restarts, and there is no indicator in the GUI that any syncing is happening, so the user is left guessing.
I have nothing but respect for Andre Staltz and all the dedication and work that he and others have put into the app (and ecosystem) but, at least for me, it's just not quite there yet.
Re: Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?
#100> I myself mostly use the following features from Keybase: Chat, KBFS, Git repositories and encrypting messages sent out-of-band via PGP in Keybase (and the various cryptographic tools [signing, validation etc]) While all these features are individually nice, I kinda started to worry about Keybase as a product when they started bolting on stuff like this. I think the key (pun intended) to stable & ongoing success in…
None of these really worried me. The Stellar airdrop was my "oh shit" moment.
"Going crypto" is the new 'jumping the shark'.