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Keybase is a really cool solution to a problem (or problems?) I don't seem to have. I've had an account for a while but don't really have any reason to use it.

Keybase is a really cool solution to a problem (or problems?) I don't seem to have. I've had an account for a while but don't really have any reason to use it. Seems like they're pivoting towards being a Slack competitor. Maybe if they open sourced the server portion it could be a chat solution that OSS projects can feel okay about using.

ahnick 7y ago
Keybase is a great way to do company onboarding. Have a new employee setup a Keybase account (if they don't have one already) and now you have a simple and secure way to have conversations and exchange files (e.g. W-4 forms, insurance, etc) I use it for personal communications too, so it is nice to use the same secure messaging platform for both work and personal and switch back and forth from computer to phone easily. I do wish the server portion and apps were opensource though.
- majkinetor 7y ago
  Hm... I wonder now could it be used for corporate secret management. I wouldn't like to use cloud solution for that and on existing on premise solutions do not cover all scenarios I need (on-boarding one of them, or guests).
  - majkinetor 7y ago
    Looks like Keybase Teams is exactly for that: https://keybase.io/blog/introducing-keybase-teams https://keybase.io/blog/introducing-keybase-teams
ereyes01 7y ago
Like 2 years ago, Rob Pike announced Upspin to much fanfare, which is a full OSS implementation of more or less the same thing as Keybase's KBFS. Since then, I haven't heard anything else about it. I tried using it for a little bit and it worked really well. anyone around here still use it, or know it's status?
byproxy 7y ago
If anything, I really like it as a file-storage option. 200GB (maybe they lowered the amount?) and encrypted and seamlessly integrates with my file-system (except for having to update Dokan on Windows).
- franzunix 7y ago
  Is someone using these 200GB? It seems slow.

ahnick 7y ago

Keybase is a great way to do company onboarding. Have a new employee setup a Keybase account (if they don't have one already) and now you have a simple and secure way to have conversations and exchange files (e.g. W-4 forms, insurance, etc) I use it for personal communications too, so it is nice to use the same secure messaging platform for both work and personal and switch back and forth from computer to phone easily. I do wish the server portion and apps were opensource though.

majkinetor 7y ago
Hm... I wonder now could it be used for corporate secret management. I wouldn't like to use cloud solution for that and on existing on premise solutions do not cover all scenarios I need (on-boarding one of them, or guests).
- majkinetor 7y ago
  Looks like Keybase Teams is exactly for that: https://keybase.io/blog/introducing-keybase-teams https://keybase.io/blog/introducing-keybase-teams

ereyes01 7y ago

Like 2 years ago, Rob Pike announced Upspin to much fanfare, which is a full OSS implementation of more or less the same thing as Keybase's KBFS. Since then, I haven't heard anything else about it. I tried using it for a little bit and it worked really well. anyone around here still use it, or know it's status?

byproxy 7y ago

If anything, I really like it as a file-storage option. 200GB (maybe they lowered the amount?) and encrypted and seamlessly integrates with my file-system (except for having to update Dokan on Windows).

franzunix 7y ago
Is someone using these 200GB? It seems slow.