It's pretty awesome how simple it is to use.
But why trust a third party to hold your private key?
Why trust them to not store the plaintext when you encrypt/decrypt with them?
Keybase raises $10.8M
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#12Awesome! I hope some of this $ will help to shorten the waiting list queue...
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#13It's pretty awesome how simple it is to use. But why trust a third party to hold your private key? Why trust them to not store the plaintext when you encrypt/decrypt with them?
You don't have to trust them, you can use their open source downloadable client. The web interface is only for ease of use, and they make it clear that many people consider that "unsafe" compared to their desktop/command line alternative.
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#14> The Node reference client to our PGP directory will be retired. (PGP support will continue, of course.)
Can anyone from Keybase shed light on the reasoning behind this? It sounds like you are moving away from programmer-friendly API libraries and into GUI apps. Even if they're open source, as a developer I really liked your up-front API. Will you still be providing those APIs?
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#15Very timely, considering the possible resurgence of the crypto wars.
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#16Awesome! I hope some of this $ will help to shorten the waiting list queue...
Throw me an email if you'd like an invite.
Edit: I don't have any more!
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#17> The Node reference client to our PGP directory will be retired. (PGP support will continue, of course.) Can anyone from Keybase shed light on the reasoning behind this? It sounds like you are moving away from programmer-friendly API libraries and into GUI apps. Even if they're open source, as a developer I really liked your up-front API. Will you still be providing those APIs?
Oh, a clarification: the Node client will be replaced by the Go version. The `keybase` command line app will be a superset of what's available in the Node client now. Sorry. So yeah - still providing those API's.
PGP support will continue, always, it's just that you won't need to have PGP on all your devices -- just the ones you use PGP on. Your PGP key will be part of a family of keys you're known by. If you install Keybase and have no idea what PGP is we don't make you get a PGP key.
By switching to device-specific keys via apps on every platform, we can solve security and convenience problem at the same time. As the blog post says, this can only work if you can bring pairs of devices together. Which has only been possible and convenient the last couple years.
Re: Keybase raises $10.8M
#18Hopefully they'll be able to address this then:
http://i.imgur.com/3VAMerv.png
(from https://twofactorauth.org/)
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#19https://keybase.io/jobs is timing out (504).
=)
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#20From my limited following keybase.io it seems like this is mostly hobby project. How does one get investment for this kind of projects? Do you need to know someone already? Or do you decide to pull a plunge and create business plan and present it on one of these demo days organized for investors?
I feel like there is a huge gap between potent, but still hobby, project and series A funding.