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[Keybase] What is it useful for?
I have a keybase account, but I don't know what to do with it.
Someone how has an account could give me an idea?
- mbrock 10y agoTheir file system is useful for sharing encrypted files. Other than that it's pretty much a key server with account verifications, so it's good if you want to sign or encrypt documents and give the recipient an easy way to confirm the key identity.
- ncouture 10y agoIt's useful for, amongst other things, making it harder to know if someone is the sole owner of their private GPG key. Don't use it.
- sigjuice 10y agoWell, giving your private key to Keybase is optional. But there is probably no way to prove that they don't have your private key?
- ncouture 10y agoYou can still disclose it: https://gist.github.com/ncouture/a28937c50053db129578ac0307b79770 https://gist.github.com/ncouture/a28937c50053db129578ac0307b...
- andreaggg 10y agoIf you don't send you private key to Keybase server, how they can steal it?
- Esau 10y agoI was my understanding that it was a mainly used as a means of verifying that User-A on website One is the same person as User-A on website Two. In other words, I thought it was being used to prevent impersonation.