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Re: Keybase.io

#54

I've got 8 invites available. If you have a lobste.rs invite, I'd appreciate one but I'm happy to give the invites away besides. https://keybase.io/bbrown

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Re: Keybase.io

#56

Love the service. I've invited few friends (from the IT industry) and nobody ever joined. I guess there aren't so much paranoid/gpg-aware people. So I have 10 invites to give. Let me know.

could I get one ? fr@nklyn.ca

Re: Keybase.io

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I remember reading somewhere that PGP is not suited for realtime web chats. Can't explain precisely why or cite sources, though.

It's because asymmetric cryptography is very inefficient, so most protocols just use asymmetric public/private keys to send a symmetric key (AES, etc) to the recipient, so further communications can happen over the much more efficient symmetric keys.

That's actually how PGP works too - it generates a random symmetric key, encrypts the message with it, then encrypts that key with the recipient's public key and both message and encrypted symmetric key are sent.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#/media/Fi...

Re: Keybase.io

#60

Love the service. I've invited few friends (from the IT industry) and nobody ever joined. I guess there aren't so much paranoid/gpg-aware people. So I have 10 invites to give. Let me know.

I'd love an invite, if you've still got them.
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