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Keybase Chat — End-to-end encrypted chat built into Keybase
Keybase is secure messaging and file-sharing. We use public key cryptography to ensure your messages stay private. Even we can’t read your chats.
Recently acquired by Zoom. News here.
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Vlad Arbatov
I love the instructions, particularly step one:
1. Buy an Apple computer.
2. Download and open Keybase.dmg.
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Great idea taking Keybase further. I'm excited to see the direction this will take. As a chat it is still very limited, but the idea is awesome.
DM on twitter @jameskoole for an invite and I'll hook you up until I run out. I've got a couple dozen.
started using it, good experience so far, just a bit slower from the common messengers because of the encryption but not a big issue.
Very, very excited to see Keybase here. Their filesystem and now chat are on-point. They set out to make encryption and verification possible for the masses and it's amazing to see the progress,
Oh wow, look at that. Wasn't expecting to be on PH today! Happy to answer questions here. (I wrote that blog post.)
For most users, Keybase chat shouldn't require an invite code at all (https://keybase.io/download), although if it asks for one, you can use `friend-of-keybase`. :-)
@malgorithms End2End encryption, I am surprised to learn others don't have that. (maybe shocked) Next platforms?
@jollymonatx others do have e2e encrypted messaging. The 2 things that make Keybase different, primarily, are: (1) that you can address people by the way you know them online, as opposed to by a phone number or email (or proprietary username), and (2) that you don't really trust the chat servers to give you the public keys in the first place. If you want to send a message to someone e2e encrypted, Keybase's servers can't trick you into sending to the wrong person. And anyone stealing an account is publicly discoverable. There are many more differences, but I think that primarily sums it up.
This is amazing!
Any plans of getting the PGP encryption/decryption you have on the site on this desktop client?
@diligiant okay..well assume i don't know what it is, because i don't. and the mac notification that came up for it taglined it as a slack alternative so...?
Love to see Keybase expanding to other use cases. What about an integration with Livestorm for end-to-end encrypted live video presentations? ;)