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Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

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Post by mike-cardwell »

Just installed on my OnePlus One. Is very laggy to switch between options by touching the buttons at the bottom of the screen. In particular, pressing the chat button seems to do nothing for over a second before it switches to the chat page. I've had this phone for a few years, and this is definitely the lagiest app I've used on it.

[edit] /data/data/io.keybase.ossifrage/files/service.log seems to be getting filled with a tonne of data every time I interact with anything in the app. I can see that filesize becoming a problem.

Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

#82

Post by corobo »

koolba wrote: post #26
mikeash wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure it's just a joke. There's no way such a thing would be enforceable.

Sure but this is the type of thing that shies corporate lawyers from approving usage of something. " We can't guarantee we'll be nice ... "

More specifically "define 'nice'"

Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

#83

Post by rcarmo »

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…

Any plans for a Universal/iPad app? Chat would be awesome there, I use Slack on my iPad to keep chat away from my main screeen...

Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

#84

Post by mike-cardwell »

tokenizerrr wrote: post #58
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.

FWIW, I also use a Yubikey and don't have this problem with Keybase. I'm running Keybase on a combination of Ubuntu and Debian machines. My master key is completely offline, and my subkeys are all on my Yubikey.

Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

#85

Post by Sleepyead »

cjbprime wrote: post #66
Sleepyead wrote: post #46

does your messages only get stored on the senders and recivers device or even on a keybase server?

They get stored encrypted in all of those places, and only the device itself can decrypt and read them, not the Keybase servers.

okay so messages that i delete, only get removed from my device?

Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

#86

Post by insomniacity »

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…

> your phone acting as an additional device key

This means I have to wipe it when crossing borders.

Will doing so pollute my graph with lots and lots of device keys?

Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

#88

Post by lloeki »

azinman2 wrote: post #79
tkfu wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

For those who don't know what "bitcode" refers to and why the "if/when":

https://medium.com/@FredericJacobs/why-i-m-not-enabling-bitc...

Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

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Post by eriknstr »

OJFord wrote: post #62
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…

> the ability to browse your encrypted files (KBFS) I'm really looking forward to that. I use something I cobbled together for password management that's completely backed by KBFS [Passbase] and I haven't worked on it much, but the main gripe I have is the difficulty in using my passwords in Android apps. Web apps are fine, Chrome syncs the password so I just login once from a computer, but any app is a painful `pass…

>That's a long introductory way of saying: KBFS on phones will be fantastic - but I've long intended to move my (pretty much personal use only, but still) app to using a database rather than raw files, so is there any plan for programmatic access to KBFS for other apps? I realise there are non-trivial issues concerning permissions there, but it could be really great - perhaps silo other apps from full access, e.g. 'App is requesting access to KBFS/Appname, approve?' and 'App is requesting access to KBFS/none-of-its-business, approve?'?

Alternatively, have you considered implementing an input method provider as the means of inputting passwords into your apps? I know that on Android you can create your own input method apps. I think on iOS you will need to jailbreak the device and even then I don't know if you can make your own input method app for it.

I am imagining that the input method shows you your list of credentials and allows you to select from it.

Re: Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

#90

Post by hdhzy »

koolba wrote: post #26
mikeash wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure it's just a joke. There's no way such a thing would be enforceable.

Sure but this is the type of thing that shies corporate lawyers from approving usage of something. " We can't guarantee we'll be nice ... "

See also "don't use for evil" clause in JSON library by Douglas Crockford and a special exemption for IBM: "I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil." [0].

[0]: http://dev.hasenj.org/post/3272592502/ibm-and-its-minions

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