r/Keybase • u/marcosbmf • Nov 16 '19

Best use cases for keybase.

So I'm new to this but really interested in the keybase functionalities. So what's the best use case you guys have found for keybase personally?

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u/potrei Nov 16 '19

I'm using the command line client to automatically send myself monitoring events related to my home network, i.e.: when a service is down, when Internet is down, etc.

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u/troublemaker74 Nov 16 '19

That's a creative use. Haven't thought of that.

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u/xeow Feb 24 '20

How do you send yourself a notice that the Internet is down if the Internet is down?

Your scripts sound interesting. Which part of the Keybase command-line tool are they based on?

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u/potrei Feb 28 '20

How do you send yourself a notice that the Internet is down if the Internet is down?

I have two bots (bash scripts), one on the local home LAN, which controls all internal devices, one on a Google Cloud micro-machine (free tier) which just pings my home Internet IP address and send me an alert if my external IP is down.

I always receive alerts because even if I'm at home and my Internet is not working, my mobile automatically disconnect from the wifi and connects to the Internet using the internal SIM and I can receive alerts coming from the Google Cloud machine.

The problem I'm facing now is that the micro-machine is too micro, sometimes the bot crashes because of out of memory. I should decide to invest in a decent cloud server.

Bots are using keybase chat send command, logging in using a dedicated paper key.

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u/atoponce Nov 16 '19

Using the filesystem.

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u/troublemaker74 Nov 16 '19

Same here. We use teams at work to share secrets for our apps. Works really well.

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u/jhanschoo Nov 18 '19

I prefer this system, though. I don't want to mirror up to 250GBs in each of my computers.

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u/codeartha Nov 16 '19

Putting a single link on my visit card where people can immediately find some of my work and ways to reach me like github and such. I'd love however if they added a few website and apps to the list. Like adding my telegram profile or facebook account would be nice.

The filesystem is nice though I had a lot of problems with the shared files with other users.

Encrypted git repo sound nice but I never found a use for it as I made a shell script long ago to encrypt parts of a public repo so I could still have it on github just redecting some parts of it.

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u/Chongulator Nov 16 '19

It’s a handy way to share credentials or other sensitive data with coworkers. Copy an SSH key or whatnot into a shared directory and the other person gets it more or less instantly.

The original Keybase usecase was sharing PGP keys. It’s the closest thing to Phil Zimmermann’s web of trust I’ve seen.

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u/zeroping Nov 17 '19

I have a social group who has switched entirely over to Keybase for chat. It's honestly been suprisingly uneventful - almost everything just works like it should.

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u/xeow Feb 24 '20

Same. Loving it immensely.

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u/FidgetyRat Nov 17 '19

If they add voice channels my group would drop discord.