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Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

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Post by geofft »

tkfu wrote: post #16
malgorithms wrote: post #8

Oh HN, so much for a soft-launch! (But thanks for all the positive comments on here.) We've been testing Keybase a lot with iOS and Android testers and we quietly released into the app stores last night. In many ways it's an MVP focusing on: (1) Keybase chat, and technically important (2) your phone acting as an additional device key, so you can easily provision new desktop computers. There are still some things miss…

How did you manage to get something written in Go into the iOS app store? I was under the impression that foreign binaries weren't allowed.

Google has had a Go app, "Ivy," on the app store since 2015. I think it was just an experiment at getting Go to build for the App Store and getting it approved, but it was in fact approved.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ivy-big-number-calculator/id...

It's true that fork() isn't allowed on non-jailbroken phones, so you can't shell out to a Go binary (you can on Android if you want). But you can build a static library in Go and link it and call into it with cgo from Objective-C or something.

Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

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Post by Osmium »

Congratulations on the release! Been waiting for this one :)

Requests to any Keybase devs reading this:

* UI to disable the macOS app from auto-launching on login (slightly user hostile not to be able to have this option, also asking permission before putting something in my Finder sidebar would be nice, useful though it may be!)

* Not sure if there's a technical reason for this, but it would be nice to be able to link accounts via OAUTH or similar without having to make a public post for all my e.g. Facebook contacts to see.

Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

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Post by tokenizerrr »

malgorithms wrote: post #8

Oh HN, so much for a soft-launch! (But thanks for all the positive comments on here.) We've been testing Keybase a lot with iOS and Android testers and we quietly released into the app stores last night. In many ways it's an MVP focusing on: (1) Keybase chat, and technically important (2) your phone acting as an additional device key, so you can easily provision new desktop computers. There are still some things miss…

Keybase is utterly unusable since you introduced the chat feature. I use a yubikey to store my gpg key so I get prompted every 5 minutes to enter my pin because for some reason keybase insists on requesting it over and over again even though I'm not even using the applcation.

Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

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Post by roblabla »

activis wrote: post #35
sebsauvage wrote: post #23

Oh great... the application is not available in France (!). GooglePlay refuses to let me download the app. And the website does not provide a direct link to the apk (only direct links to desktop apps). Will I have to download the app from dubious third-party stores ? :-(

As I read France set very troublesome restrictions for any software which uses cryptography. As I remember it requires some kind of approval from government, assignment of special code based on documents you provide via mail. And it takes up to 4 month.

Source ? I'm french, and I've never heard of this. US used to have silly export laws way back when, but that's been over since 2000.

Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

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Post by kyletns »

Osmium wrote: post #55

Congratulations on the release! Been waiting for this one :) Requests to any Keybase devs reading this: * UI to disable the macOS app from auto-launching on login (slightly user hostile not to be able to have this option, also asking permission before putting something in my Finder sidebar would be nice, useful though it may be!) * Not sure if there's a technical reason for this, but it would be nice to be able to li…

Just FYI - the purpose of the public posts is (I believe) to leave yourself verifiable by others at any future time. So then nobody has to take Keybase's word for it that Keybase account X is linked to Facebook account Y, because I can just verify it myself with your public post!
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