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I can't help but get an embrace, extend, extinguish vibe from keybase. It was a nifty key discovery service initially, but more and more feels like a closed pla
by subway 9y ago
I can't help but get an embrace, extend, extinguish vibe from keybase. It was a nifty key discovery service initially, but more and more feels like a closed platform, and gives me a sense of deja vu akin to XMPP on GTalk.
- dasil003 9y agoI get what you're saying, but realistically PGP will never cross the chasm, so there was not really a viable business there. I like that they have integrated it, but are moving in a direction that lowers the barrier to entry. There are risks to be sure, but it feels like the most promising of the secure messaging platforms.
- wiml 9y agoI have to agree — I was excited about Keybase, but my interest vanished as soon as they became yet another place to have an account rather than being a way to discover and semi-trust existing identities.
- hdhzy 9y agoIt's also worth noting that there are Keybase alternatives in the works, e.g. Linked Identities [0] for proofs about social accounts (Github, Twitter etc.) that just utilizes OpenPGP, and Key Transparency [1] for tracking changes in keys. [0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vb-openpgp-linked-ids-01 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vb-openpgp-linked-ids-01 [1]: https://security.googleblog.com/2017/01/security-through-transparency.html https://security.googleblog.com/2017/01/security-through-tra...