Public foldersĪnything you place inside the /public folder can be accessed by any Keybase user and it'sĪutomatically signed. Where you will find at least three other folders: public, private, team. There is a virtual folder located at /keybase (on OSX/Linux or k:\keybase on Windows) One of the first features launched by Keybase was their encrypted filesystem. Very useful in some situations, we will see it later. Without having to know your email address or Keybase username. Once you are on Keybase, other users can look for you even using your GitHub or Twitter username Unless an attacker controls all your social accounts, they cannot impersonate and verify In Keybase youĬan link your existing online accounts to your Keybase account and show additional You don't just say "I'm Andrea Grandi, this is my PGP key.". Many of us have a personal blog, a Twitter or Facebook accounts, a GitHub account etc.Īll these accounts combined together make our online identity.Įvery Keybase account can be verified by other online identities. In Keybase it's possible to either generate a new PGP key or import an existing oneīut the most important thing is being able to verify our own identity using multiple proofs.
To encrypt and decrypt a message for a certain user, but it also introduced a very nice When Keybase was launched it was mainly a wrapper for PGP commands Keybase really makes encryption easy to use. Using PGP can be quite hard, even if you have a lot of experience with computers.īy the way encryption is what gives us privacy and permits us to safely transmit informationĪnd for this reason it should be easy to use, for everyone.
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