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Lucky for us it is open source? I was hoping to use it to replace Dropbox but they kept not taking my money... small wonder they went for the acquisition.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Lucky for us it is open source? I was hoping to use it to replace Dropbox but they kept not taking my money... small wonder they went for the acquisition.
- dgellow 6y agoIs the server open source? I know that the client is, but I haven’t found sources for the backend.
- an_ko 6y agoIt's not: https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/6374 https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/6374
- thayne 6y ago> it is open source Not exactly. The clients are open source, but the central server isn't. See https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/6374 https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/6374. It might be possible to reverse engineer the server, but it would be a lot more involved than just forking the project.
- neltnerb 6y agoThat's unfortunate. I assume Zoom would have no interest in open sourcing the server software now that they've paid for the cryptographic expertise and code, but I think the previous owners might have been willing to... surprised they never did, maybe they decided they'd never get bought if they did. A shame, it seemed to work really well. Maybe Zoom will be willing to take my money to be a DropBox end-to-end encrypted cloud sync service instead, they seem to be fairly on the ball with responding to complaints and that they decided it was worth buying Keybase to improve their service maybe they'll come out alright. Wishful thinking maybe =)
- thayne 6y agoThe best scenario would be if this led to keybase open-sourcing the server as well. I have no idea how likely that is.
- ackbar03 6y agoWhat was the main difference with this a drop box though? It's encrypted?
- chupasaurus 6y agoThe data is stored after encryption by client which are open source (and by using boring© crypto schemes).
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