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- Volundr 12y agoLate to the story, but I have 8 invites if anyone wants them.
- killing_time 12y agoI'd be really grateful for one if you still have any up for grabs. My email address is in my profile. Thanks in advance
- holodigm 12y agoI'm interested in chat client capacity implemented on top of something like keybase.io. Anyone?
- xrstf 12y agoI remember reading somewhere that PGP is not suited for realtime web chats. Can't explain precisely why or cite sources, though.
- atonse 12y agoIt's because asymmetric cryptography is very inefficient, so most protocols just use asymmetric public/private keys to send a symmetric key (AES, etc) to the recipient, so further communications can happen over the much more efficient symmetric keys.
- IgorPartola 12y agoThat and PGP, AFAIK, also doesn't really do perfect forward secrecy. If you get the private key, you can decrypt all stored messages. That said, you provide the answer: use PGP's asymmetric encryption to establish a session key, then use that to communicate.
- icebraining 12y agoThat's actually how PGP works too - it generates a random symmetric key, encrypts the message with it, then encrypts that key with the recipient's public key and both message and encrypted symmetric key are sent. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#/media/File:PGP_diagram.svg http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#/media/Fi...
- epistasis 12y agoWhat I think that they get very right is tying keys to social identity, as these networks function much better as a web of trust than the original PGP version. But I don't know why I can't shake the feeling that this is not a trustworthy service.
- egwynn 12y agoOne really nice aspect of keybase is that it can be used at a number of different levels that suit one's own flavor of paranoia. You can use it as a key repository, just grabbing people’s keys and using your own PGP/GnuPG apparatus for signing. Or you can use their (much more pleasant) CLI and see their social identity tracking data. Or you can use their web UI just for client-side encryption/verification (also without uploading your key anywhere). Finally, the bold can upload their keys and use the web UI for the whole shebang, including decrypting/signing. I think paranoia is warranted in this day and age, and I think one of the best outlets for paranoia is for people to try and educate themselves about privacy technology. Keybase is a great opportunity for that, since all of the most sensitive operations happen client-side via open source software.
- holodigm 12y agoMy thoughts are that with the implementation of data retention laws in Australia the ultra paranoid arena of PGP is becoming of greater relevance to the average citizen and so a simple, easily implemented, non-centralised, publicly identifiable crypto for everyday comms may become not only viable, but sought after - http://blog.lrdesign.com/2014/03/thoughts-on-keybase-io/ http://blog.lrdesign.com/2014/03/thoughts-on-keybase-io/
- IgorPartola 12y agoI have four^Wtwo invites available, if anyone's interested. Message me via email. FIFO and all that. Edit: invites are gone. Try emailing the project leaders for some.
- kstrauser 12y ago6 first-come, first served invitations. I love the idea of Keybase and wish more people were using it. While it's not a replacement for keysigning parties, it's a nice probabilistic model for casual security.
- smacktoward 12y agoI'd like to give it a spin, if you haven't run out yet. Contact info on my profile. EDIT: Received and accepted. Thanks!
- habi 12y agoI've invited you.
- tsuraan 12y agoI'd love an invite, if any remain. Email address should be in my "about".
- habi 12y agoI've invited you.
- malgorithms 12y agoIf you run out of invites for HN folks, email me. (I'm https://keybase.io/chris https://keybase.io/chris). We're working pretty hard on Keybase. For the last year it was just 2 of us (me and https://keybase.io/max https://keybase.io/max) , but some amazing people just joined the cause and we're building a much better service. Our Go client, for example, is almost on feature parity with the old Node reference client, and we've started working on a nice OSX GUI. A lot has been written about PGP and its shortcomings, and we agree with pretty much all the points: client integration problems, usability, the WoT just sucking, key management, revocations. So far at Keybase we've attacking one of the most important problems with PKI in general, not just PGP: getting the right key for someone. But it's really only one piece. I don't want to (yet!) give away too much of what we hope to launch later this year, but there's nothing about Keybase that's specific to PGP. Or chat - which people seem to get hung up on. We think we're in a very good position to release open source software that makes people's lives more secure and more convenient. Everything from financial transactions, chats, and releasing public software should be easy with a PKI. It's just not working yet.
- fiatjaf 12y agoSomeone could serve a Javascript encrypter-decrypter app from IPFS so it would be certainly the same whenever you accessed it with the same URL.
- danieldk 12y agoI have 8 invites, let me know if you want one (see my profile). I would be extra happy if you could send me a lobste.rs invite :). Edit: it turns out that my wife also has 8, so I'll forward once mine are gone. Edit 2: my lobste.rs wish is fulfilled, thanks! We still have some invites left.
- timdorr 12y agoI have 10 and will also trade for a lobste.rs invite :) (keybase proof and link to my social stuff in my profile)
- anfedorov 12y agoOoh, also have invites if anyone wants them. Hadn't heard of lobste.rs, but seems cool if I could get an invite there in return, as well :)
- superobserver 12y agoIf you have anymore left, I would appreciate one: rahool @ tuto.io . Thank you!
- cmrn 12y agoI've got a few invites, and would love to trade one for a lobste.rs invite as well! :)
- bulte-rs 12y agoshoot me an email. also: invites available for keybase; mail in bio.
- Sir_Cmpwn 12y agoDitto.
- stock_toaster 12y agoI have lobsters - check your inbox. :D
- edent 12y agoThey're also very prompt and responding to fixing bugs. E.g. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/12/disclosed-minor-bug-in-keybase-io/ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/12/disclosed-minor-bug-in-keyb... Excellent service which makes determining keys much easier.
- malgorithms 12y agoOh cool - thanks for linking to that. I actually think the Github discussion that followed on Express was a good example of how people can actually collaborate well on software. In this case it just led to resolving a misunderstanding on my part: https://github.com/strongloop/express/issues/2464 https://github.com/strongloop/express/issues/2464 At the bottom you can see I tipped some BTC. I recommend everyone should have a little balance of cryptocurrency to throw out thank yous to project managers who take the time to explain usage. It's worth a lot to you, so you should give some back.
- habi 12y agoI have 6 invites to give out. Keybase proof and contact can be found in my profile.
- wanda 12y ago9 invites available
- thethinker1032 12y agoIf these are still available, could I get one? ETA: Disregard this post.
- GrayCodex 12y agoI have couple of invites. Let me know if I can help someone.
- hkdobrev 12y agoLove the service. I've invited few friends (from the IT industry) and nobody ever joined. I guess there aren't so much paranoid/gpg-aware people. So I have 10 invites to give. Let me know.
- hobarrera 12y agoI wouldn't mind taking an invite of your hands, if you like. :) My email is hugo@barrera.io.
- arthurcolle 11y agoHey I'd really like an invite! [hello (at) arthurcolle.com] if you have any more :)
- ddworken 12y agoAny chance I can get one? david@daviddworken.com
- fiatjaf 12y agoSame with me.
- zatkin 12y agoI have invites as well.
- zyamada 12y agoThank you!
- draugadrotten 12y agoPrevious discussions about keybase.io: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=keybase&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=keybase&sort=byPopularity&pref...
- grayfox 12y ago8 invites available!
- darklajid 12y agoAnother one with 8 invites. Send me a mail if you want one.
- namewithhe1d 12y agoJust tweeted to you. Interested!
- gglanzani 12y agoHave some invites as well, shoot me an email if you want some.
- Daegalus 12y agoI have 8 invites to give out for those that want it! Been on Keybase for a while and love it. Used it with a few coworkers.
- billbrown 12y agoI've got 8 invites available. If you have a lobste.rs invite, I'd appreciate one but I'm happy to give the invites away besides. https://keybase.io/bbrown https://keybase.io/bbrown
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- thethinker1032 12y agoMay I get one?
- billbrown 12y agoSent to your email.
- bradbatt 12y agoAppreciate an invite if you still have one available. Thanks!
- billbrown 12y agoYou're the last one I've got but I don't know how to get in touch. I checked your domain's whois but I don't know if dns@bb is valid.
- jmervin 12y agoIf you have any invites left I'd love to have one. [email in about]
- fweespeech 12y agoThis is from 2014 and should be marked as such.
- gkelly 12y ago6 invites here. Email in profile.
- ciriarte 12y agoI have a few invites, again asking for a lobste.rs invite.
- nailer 12y agoHow can a web service encrypt your plaintext unless they have your private key? Edit: ah you up an encrypted private key. I guess it gets decrypted live in your browser, without touching their network, if you trust keybase.io's JS. Whether you do indeed trust keybase IO's JS (it's OSS, yaay, is your browser running exactly what's on GitHub though?) is another matter.
- neckro23 12y agoYou don't have to give them your private key -- it's just for convenience, if you happen to trust Keybase. You don't have to run it in the browser, either; you can just install the command-line tool via NPM and know exactly what code you're running.
- rahulrav 12y agoI have some invites, if someone's interested.
- lorenzfx 12y agoI will invite people to lobste.rs. Because of their rules (you misbehave, I have to bear the consequences) I will not just invite anyone, but only people I can find on the net and can be reasonable sure are not assholes. So write me a mail with some information about yourself (have a look at my profile for the address) and if you don't look like a total dick I'll send you an invite. I do have three keybase.io invites as well.