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> The relationship between online personas and public keys should be automatically verifiable and publicly auditable. This description sure sounds like exactly
by eridius 10y ago
> The relationship between online personas and public keys should be automatically verifiable and publicly auditable.
This description sure sounds like exactly what https://keybase.io https://keybase.io provides.
- lettergram 10y agoCan't upvote this enough! I even wrote a prototype chrome extension for a few friends and myself: http://lettergram.github.io/AnyCrypt/ http://lettergram.github.io/AnyCrypt/ I love the idea of keybase, I just wish it was used by more people.
- skmexyz 10y agoI just got an invite to Keybase. Is there a reason why 1. it's invite based? 2. it supports very few external services that you can verify (I can't figure out a way to verify LinkedIn or Gitlab for instance) ?
- eridius 10y agoI don't really have a good answer for you. Invite-based services are a good way to scale out without getting a huge spike all at once (even Gmail was introduced using invites), but I don't know how long Keybase intends to stick with the invite model or when they'll expand it. As for services, each service that's supported presumably needs custom code, and also needs to have a publicly-auditable way to post a proof that cannot be done by anyone other than the owner of the account (e.g. for Twitter you need to actually tweet something, for GitHub you need to post a gist, etc). I don't have a LinkedIn account or use GitLab so I don't know if those services have an effective way to handle such a proof. For reference, here's a ticket asking for LinkedIn support - https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/1115 https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/1115. Here's one for GitLab - https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/1242 https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/1242 - which documents some barriers there (such as no API to get GitLab snippets).
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- wanda 10y agoOff-topic: I have 10 Keybase invites — does anybody want or need one?
- saycheese 10y agoUnless I'm missing something, an invite is not need to use Keybase.
- beardog 10y agoYes it is to skip the long line, although there are semi-secret invite codes that can be used infinitely.
- jeff_marshall 10y agoYes, please. My email is in my profile.
- davidhperry 10y agoI'd like one :)
- soggypenny 10y agoSure! Email in profile.
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