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Re: Introducing Keybase Chat

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Post by philsnow » Wed, Feb 08, 2017, 11:51 PM UTC

mekaj wrote: post #83

philsnow wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It could be formatted better: it's telling you you have three different options, one of which is, Install Keybase on a different machine that has your PGP key I was in the same boat as you, I didn't want to import my private key onto this mac laptop because I don't know how the "Keychain.app" works and don't trust apple to not do something super helpful like store my GPG private key forever and always. I did the logi…

I interpreted that option as Keybase needing a local copy of the PGP key. Thanks for helping me understand that's not the case. I've set up Keybase on my trusted machine with my GPG keypair, and now have a device key on that machine. When I go to Devices -> Add new... -> New Computer in the GUI I'm told to "Type in text code" (along with the note "In the Keybase app on your computer, go to Devices > Add a new device"…

on my trusted computer with my GPG key, I ran 'keybase device add', selected option 1 ("desktop or laptop") and it asked me to enter the "verification code" from the other device. It also said, "to get a verification code, run 'keybase login' on your other device", but I'm certain that I just clicked some buttons in the GUI instead of running that command.

Re: Introducing Keybase Chat

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Post by brett40324 » Wed, Feb 08, 2017, 11:54 PM UTC

Key gen less than two minutes from phone - all around great UI signing up!

Re: Introducing Keybase Chat

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Post by bootload » Wed, Feb 08, 2017, 11:58 PM UTC

malgorithms wrote: post #2

OP here! I had to trim the post down for brevity, but I thought the HN community in particular might be interested in the API side of things. Undocumented in the post: you can invent channels for app-to-app communication from the JSON API. For example, it's possible with Keybase chat to have a program posting encrypted messages for another person or program, without cluttering up the visual chat interface. Also - to…

"it's possible with Keybase chat to have a program posting encrypted messages for another person or program, without cluttering up the visual chat interface."

Nice. I'll be looking at what source of tools that use this style of communication on github.

Re: Introducing Keybase Chat

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Post by ardaozkal » Thu, Feb 09, 2017, 12:19 AM UTC

OJFord wrote: post #88

chungy wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could do it yourself using /keybase/private :-) But I'd agree, a good UI provided by keybase would be lovely.

Hey, whaddyaknow, that's what I did with Passbase ;) [0] Well, not the UI part. And it's probably buggy as hell* - be warned - but It Works For Me ^TM. (And issues/PRs more than welcome!) [0] - https://github.com/OJFord/passbase * A big part of my motivation to do it was as a toy thing to learn some Rust, so it has all the hall marks of someone kludging around trying to learn something new. Critiques/"WTH ARE YOU DOI…

I use pass, of http://passwordstore.org

While I didn't try it myself (I just run my own git server), symlinking the directory of that to kbfs (or maybe just create a git repo there and make some magic to locally push stuff) should work.

Re: Introducing Keybase Chat

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Post by ardaozkal » Thu, Feb 09, 2017, 12:25 AM UTC

Splendor wrote: post #81

So how does this compare to Slack's free tier? Is there a user limit, channel limit, message history limit, etc.?

Think of this chat system as something similar to whatsapp or telegram. There are groups, and not channels. User limit, afaik, is not hardcoded. Message history afaik, also has no limit.

Re: Introducing Keybase Chat

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Post by nannal » Thu, Feb 09, 2017, 12:26 AM UTC

oddevan wrote: post #25

malgorithms wrote: post #2

OP here! I had to trim the post down for brevity, but I thought the HN community in particular might be interested in the API side of things. Undocumented in the post: you can invent channels for app-to-app communication from the JSON API. For example, it's possible with Keybase chat to have a program posting encrypted messages for another person or program, without cluttering up the visual chat interface. Also - to…

This is really cool. Question: right now, I have a [deep link to Keybase's encrypt page][1] on my website as "Create encrypted message." Will there be a way to do something similar, but using Keybase Chat(tm)? ("build it yourself" is an acceptable answer in this instance) [1]: https://keybase.io/encrypt#oddevan

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Re: Introducing Keybase Chat

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Post by mjewkes » Thu, Feb 09, 2017, 12:36 AM UTC

Walkman wrote: post #90

This is the last time I spam a Keybase thread with invite codes :) https://keybase.io/inv/6953921e2f https://keybase.io/inv/637bfd5d42 https://keybase.io/inv/20be67f672

Do you have any more? Looking for an invite :)

Re: Introducing Keybase Chat

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Post by philip1209 » Thu, Feb 09, 2017, 12:38 AM UTC

This could be a great way to securely alert Github project maintainers about security vulnerabilities.

Re: Introducing Keybase Chat

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Post by OJFord » Thu, Feb 09, 2017, 12:41 AM UTC

ardaozkal wrote: post #94

OJFord wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, whaddyaknow, that's what I did with Passbase ;) [0] Well, not the UI part. And it's probably buggy as hell* - be warned - but It Works For Me ^TM. (And issues/PRs more than welcome!) [0] - https://github.com/OJFord/passbase * A big part of my motivation to do it was as a toy thing to learn some Rust, so it has all the hall marks of someone kludging around trying to learn something new. Critiques/"WTH ARE YOU DOI…

I use pass, of http://passwordstore.org While I didn't try it myself (I just run my own git server), symlinking the directory of that to kbfs (or maybe just create a git repo there and make some magic to locally push stuff) should work.

I saw that recently, after the post on here about the 'pass compatible password management for teams', I forget what it was called.

It's actually more along the lines of the latter I wanted to do with Passbase - seeing as it's already using KBFS it would be (relatively) easy to do password sharing, just throw it in a shared private folder.

I was thinking more of the shared pizza-order password with room-mates, or groceries, bill-paying - whatever - than professional teams, though.

I digress, yes, I'd definitely recommend using Pass over anything I've cobbled together!

Re: Introducing Keybase Chat

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Post by mutecipher » Thu, Feb 09, 2017, 12:48 AM UTC

brightball wrote: post #66

malgorithms wrote: post #2

OP here! I had to trim the post down for brevity, but I thought the HN community in particular might be interested in the API side of things. Undocumented in the post: you can invent channels for app-to-app communication from the JSON API. For example, it's possible with Keybase chat to have a program posting encrypted messages for another person or program, without cluttering up the visual chat interface. Also - to…

Just installed and it's still asking me for an invite code on the Fedora RPM.

I had the same issue, but signing up on the website seemed to work fine and then I was able to log in without issue.