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Official Keybase extension for Chrome

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Re: Official Keybase extension for Chrome

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Post by j2kun »

gaxun wrote: post #7

I've been trying out this extension for a few days. What I would really like to see from this extension is a 1-click way to sign any message I'm writing, anywhere on the internet. Along with that would be the ability to verify that a keybase signature found in the wild belongs to a particular keybase user. Then I can initiate out-of-band discussions with the author of a comment on someone's blog, not just with a Redd…

I second this. Rough sketch: detect a text input I'm tying in, add a little button that says "sign and send", which when clicked adds a signature to the message and submits. If the extension sees this on a forum, verify the sig in the background and inject a little check mark next to the username if it checks out.

Re: Official Keybase extension for Chrome

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Post by jzila »

joshpadnick wrote: post #27
graphememes wrote: post #9

Stopped using Keybase after installing the windows graphical interface and it became increasingly intrusive to my daily workflow. I only login to keybase to obtain secrets from co-workers. If you don't login to keybase, quitting the interface on windows is extremely annoying and embedded deep in a custom right click interface. Then, once it has been quit, after some time it will randomly start again asking you to sig…

I'm a big fan of Keybase overall, but I share the annoyance of intrusive notifications. I don't really need to see a popup window of all users that pertain to my keybasefs folder every time I access it. Also, I've noticed keybasefs can be quite slow sometimes. But these are minor annoyances in the context of a great product.

Thanks for the feedback! We've recently implemented some pretty big performance improvements in the filesystem, including prefetching files, caching them encrypted to your local disk, and journaling for writes (allowing us to sync them over some period rather than blocking on your network connection). If you're still experiencing poor performance in the filesystem, please file a ticket on github.com/keybase/kbfs or contact me on Keybase chat (keybase.io/jzila).

Re: Official Keybase extension for Chrome

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Post by joshschreuder »

jzila wrote: post #32
joshpadnick wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a big fan of Keybase overall, but I share the annoyance of intrusive notifications. I don't really need to see a popup window of all users that pertain to my keybasefs folder every time I access it. Also, I've noticed keybasefs can be quite slow sometimes. But these are minor annoyances in the context of a great product.

Thanks for the feedback! We've recently implemented some pretty big performance improvements in the filesystem, including prefetching files, caching them encrypted to your local disk, and journaling for writes (allowing us to sync them over some period rather than blocking on your network connection). If you're still experiencing poor performance in the filesystem, please file a ticket on github.com/keybase/kbfs or c…

Just sent you some feedback using the extension :)

Re: Official Keybase extension for Chrome

#34

Post by Zalos »

SquareWheel wrote: post #29
shazow wrote: post #21

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Publishing encrypted tweets wouldn't work too well with the character limit and all, unless I suppose we use images and OCR[0]. For things like encrypting emails inline, we could explore it but I'm not convinced it's a good use case: To get all the benefits of Keybase (identity verification, key/device provisioning, improved encryption over PGP), the recipients would also need to have Keybase installed which means yo…

Fair point on tweet length. I hadn't considered that. Do Direct Messages have a character limit? I'm unsure. For Gmail I think it could still make sense for those who have a Keybase account/key, but haven't yet downloaded the app (this was me for a while). Just as an example, I have a work contact who I am often exchanging passwords with. We use Proton Mail for these, and Gmail for everything else. Saying "I sent you…

Hi SquareWheel. I use Keybase as a "Here's my Public Key and I am who I say I am". For e-mail/Gmail I use Mailvelope it's fairly easy to setup and use. I recommend you take a look at that in regards to e-mail encryption if you don't already have a system. You can see more here: https://www.mailvelope.com/en And here is a presentation of mailvelope from the excellent Hak5 team. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDCjhKcA0IE
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