Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io

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Post by achernya » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 5:09 PM UTC

Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io
blog.lizdenys.com

Re: Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io

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Post by raverbashing » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 5:29 PM UTC

So to verify a key I need to install npm?

No thanks.

" It doesn't seem particularly safe for me to trust my valuable PGP keys to this system."

I agree

Re: Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io

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Post by rsync » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 5:33 PM UTC

I've only been glacing here and there, but I keep seeing discussion of uploading ones private key to keybase being an actual mechanism that is supported / encouraged / extant ?

Surely not...

Re: Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io

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Post by opendais » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 5:36 PM UTC

rsync wrote: post #3

I've only been glacing here and there, but I keep seeing discussion of uploading ones private key to keybase being an actual mechanism that is supported / encouraged / extant ? Surely not...

https://keybase.io/ "Keybase.io is also a Keybase client, however certain crypto actions (signing and decrypting) are limited to users who store client-encrypted copies of their private keys on the server, an optional feature we didn't mention above.

On the website, all crypto is performed in JavaScript, in your browser. Some people have strong feelings about this, for good reason."

Re: Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 5:36 PM UTC

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 5:37 PM UTC

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Re: Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io

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Post by eik3_de » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 5:38 PM UTC

Curious: Why do people choose JavaScript/node.js to write command line apps over traditional languages for that task like python or ruby?

Re: Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io

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Post by jonny_eh » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 5:38 PM UTC

eik3_de wrote: post #7

Curious: Why do people choose JavaScript/node.js to write command line apps over traditional languages for that task like python or ruby?

Why do people choose python or ruby to write command line apps over traditional languages like BASH, PERL, and C?

Re: Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io

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Post by cortesoft » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 5:42 PM UTC

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What? Why?

Re: Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io

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Post by shazow » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 5:43 PM UTC

I had a similar issue with the verifying process. I opened an issue requesting better documentation on the signing command so that people can write their own clients: https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/174