I've never heard about Keybase before this post. Can someone explain what the "you can write securely to any twitter, reddit, facebook, github, and hacker news user" is about? If you write to them do they need the app to view it or does it go into their inbox (does github even have an inbox?). And if they open it on a browser it would no longer be encrypted, right?
Keybase is out for iPhone, Android
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#72Oh 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…
> exists on all 5 platforms (iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, and Windows) Last night I was pleasantly surprised to discover it is in the FreeBSD repository as well. I really like what you all are doing.
They could better say "exists on 5 platforms", to avoid implying that other platforms don't exist, even if they are considered unworthy in some way.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I give Keybase a not nice review will they revoke my license?
On eBay I stopped giving neutral reviews because if it wasn't 5 star then I'd get negative reviews back on my own account. Neutral = Negative to some people.
I think its more to do with the community you're interacting with. Five stars means that the product meets reasonable expectations, anything less means there's something wrong.
Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android
#74Oh 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.
Have you tried filing an issue against the client? https://github.com/keybase/client/issues
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#75Definitely looking into this!
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#76I've never heard about Keybase before this post. Can someone explain what the "you can write securely to any twitter, reddit, facebook, github, and hacker news user" is about? If you write to them do they need the app to view it or does it go into their inbox (does github even have an inbox?). And if they open it on a browser it would no longer be encrypted, right?
afaik, it's pgp/gpg under the covers with a nicer UX and registry for public keys... so, technically they wouldn't need the software to send/receive messages from you, but it makes it easier.
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#77Oh 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.
France has removed those restrictions, since 2004.
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#78Keybase is amazing, and I'll be installing it on my mobile device. It really makes crypto a lot more approachable for average users. Their chat is great, and I'd been looking forward to the mobile app. On desktop my only complaint so far is that they keep trying to jam everything into a single app. I think they could break things up into three separate apps: core, chat, and KBFS. Personally, I have no use for KBFS an…
I just tried to use chat on FreeBSD (helpfully mentioned in another comment) but it fails with "error unboxing chat message: KBFS client wasn't found" so they might be more tightly linked than you hope.
Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android
#79Oh 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.
The bigger problem with go is if/when Apple requires bitcode on iOS.
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#80I've never heard about Keybase before this post. Can someone explain what the "you can write securely to any twitter, reddit, facebook, github, and hacker news user" is about? If you write to them do they need the app to view it or does it go into their inbox (does github even have an inbox?). And if they open it on a browser it would no longer be encrypted, right?
It's like WhatsApp; but with PGP and you're in complete control of your keys.
They basically provide the public key exchange and verification services with an appealing UI akin to your modern chat application.
Let's say you hook up your reddit account or HN account to your Keybase account, and we want to chat. One of us simply has to look for the other on Keybase, start up a chat like Twitter DMs -- but it's PGP encrypted and seemingly as flawless as exchanging PGP emails without the hassle of exchanging our public keys through a key-server. This is arguably the hardest thing for non-tech savvy's to grasp.