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Keybase launches encrypted Git

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Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

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Post by rakoo »

hasenj wrote: post #238
rakoo wrote: post #233

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No, branches are not git objects. An object is something that is identified by its sha1. Branches are merely files on the filesystem that point to objects.

You're thinking about branch names. The branch itself (anonymous branch?) is part of git because the commit history is a tree with branches.

It's part of git, but is not a git object, those have a very specific definition: it's all the thing that are identified by their hash.

Note that the commit history doesn't depend on branches: it's just a chain from commit to commits. The tree can exist withou any branch at all. That wouldn't be very useful, but it's still valid. Branches are merely pointers to a commit.

Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

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Post by alanh »

brazzledazzle wrote: post #177
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…

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.

Not affiliated with Keybase, but I’d love to get your perspective on those things. I don’t see a way to contact you in your HN bio. Send me a note? https://alanhogan.com/contact?reason=corporate%20IT%20dept%2...

(Anyone else with relevant thoughts on what IT needs around encryption, recovery, key backup, etc, please feel free to write me, too)

Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

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Post by jboynyc »

pqs wrote: post #258
jboynyc wrote: post #166

I made a test repository and proceeded to clone it using the keybase:// uri, expecting it not to work, but by some dark magic, it just did. Impressive!

Not in my case. $:~/projectes$ git clone keybase:// [uri] Cloning into 'something'... fatal: I don't handle protocol 'keybase' I'm on an ubuntu machine. What can I do to solve the problem? Keybase version 1.0.34-20171006000413+5fe91ae13

Have you installed and are you running the keybase client software? I start it on my system (Arch Linux) using the run_keybase command.

Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

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Post by choosegoose »

AdrianRossouw wrote: post #226
choosegoose wrote: post #153

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Are you not concerned with the data Wire collects? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14069674 Versus the data Signal collects: https://signal.org/bigbrother/eastern-virginia-grand-jury/ Although I agree Wire looks like a much more (visually) polished chat service, it seems like they (Wire) collect more data than is necessary.

Wire has open sourced it's server code (gplv3 even) and is working on federation support : https://medium.com/@wireapp/wire-server-code-now-100-open-so... So you can run your own copy of it, and be in complete control of any information it collects.

That seems really exciting. When that occurs I will most likely switch over. Unfortunately you can't quite host it your self yet: https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server/issues/2

Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

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Post by nimnio »

falsedan wrote: post #29

Nice to see people work on git remote helpers, a shame that there's already a fine remote helper that is not tied to a specific hosting provider & uses GPG[0] already. 0: https://spwhitton.name/tech/code/git-remote-gcrypt/

Could you explain what's a shame? I'm having trouble guessing your point.

Re: Keybase launches encrypted Git

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Post by iivarih »

woolvalley wrote: post #172
notheguyouthink wrote: post #86

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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?

Signal only provides chat functionality... And doesn't support multiple devices... Also the history is lost on device change (or upgrade/reset etc)... And you cannot chat with people who you don't trust with your phone number
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