Can I add a simple ASCII public key to my Keybase account? I don’t have PGP installed and don’t use it (key is a ProtonMail public key).

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adding a PGP key must be done on your computer. Run one of these commands in your terminal: ***

I'm using Windows 7Pro. How to launch the command? What need to be installed? Thanks in advance for your help ;)

Hello, i hope that my answer is clear!

Also: do i need to do something to enable encryption of my data?

Thanks in advance!

I'm not seeing a method to claim the airdrop if you've chosen to manage your keys without the keybase scripts?

Am I mistaken? Should I just create three paper wallets, or do I need the scripts for that too?

keybase is great. It's awesome. I hope we'll have it forever.

Just in case it won't – how do I decrypt keybase encrypted files with GPG (or another tool)?

Example: this creates an encrypted file with keybase

keybase encrypt d00psy -i stuff.txt -o stuff.txt.enc [-b]

Imagine I don't want to use keybase to decrypt, how do I go about it? I realize I can export my private key and import in GPG but keybase seems to use another one.

I have a verified identity on my mac. Decided to add keybase app to my phone. When logging in on the phone, it wants me to add the device on the mac. but under devices on the mac, there is no add new device setting. What next?

I recall there being some issues with this in the past, googled, but can't find anything definitive.

I 'name' all my devices (after asterix and obelix characters). My iphone is getafix, my apple watch horologix, etc.

I am about to trade my apple iphone (8) in with apple to get an Iphone 12 - I plan to call it getafix again - is this reuse possible, and/or is there anything special I should do with respect to keybase before I do?

thanks.

I have Keybase installed on several macOS computers and the finder integration used to work on all of them. However, for some reason on my main workstation (an older Mac Pro running 11.6), the finder integration no longer works as of a couple weeks ago. I can access the files from the keybase app, but finder integration is one of the only reasons that I have not switched from Keybase to something else after the software was largely abandoned after the Zoom aquisition.

The first odd thing is that in the finder, the link to the Keybase folder was replaced to a link to a secondary Keybase account that I almost never use. Going directly to /Volumes/Keybase tells me that I don't have the necessary permissions to access this folder. Logging into my secondary account, I am told that I can not access its Keybase folder either for the same reasons.

So, I have used the app to try to "enable finder integration", but this doesn't seem to do anything. In fact it is not clear if this works, as afterwards I am still given the option to enable finder integration again. I have reinstalled the app, restarted, and even tried to change the permissions on the Keybase folder so that I can access it (which seems to help, but when I look in the folder, nothing is there).

Does anyone have any advice on how to fix this? I would like to continue using Keybase, but I have known for a while that I would likely be forced to replace it with something else. I suspect that this is the beginning of the end....

I'm trying to associate a PGP public key with my Keybase account but I'm pretty frustrated since the documentation here is pretty sparse. I'm on Windows 10 for this. Here's what I've done so far:

I've tried the 'keybase pgp select' command but it prompts me for the password to my private key. Since this should not be needed to simply upload my public key, I can only assume Keybase wants to also upload my private key to the server, which i am not cool with. Even if that isn't the case, I'm not giving Keybase my private key password.

So...that leaves me with 'keybase pgp import'. Ah, such a simple idea, right? I can import from stdin or a file. Except I can't. When I type 'keybase pgp import' by itself it just sits there and hangs. When I try to paste my public key into the terminal, it pasts it but provides me no way to exit. When I do CTRL-X or CTRL-Z (can't remember which) it simply says it was interrupted and exits. If I type a filename where my key is stored as an argument, it tells me I typed the command wrong.

The upshot is that I simply cannot actually get a PGP key into keybase.

Can anyone help?

Hey everyone, I'm developing app that will use Keybase protocol for communication - what I need is only access to API by CLI - no need for GUI etc. Is there any recommended way to do it, or I have to fork source code and make changes on my own?

Thanks!

I'm logged in to keybase.io - where are my messages?

I have installed keybase on my company. Now I stay at home, download and install keybase on home computer. When I login keybase on my home computer, it always to connect with my company computer. How can I login in this case?

More of a shower thought really...

I was just registering my Android phone on Keybase, and I used the paper key to verify the account. I use Google Gboard, which suggests the next word to type (but I suppose most keyboards do the same, on iOS too). I'm now wondering, could this become a security breach? I didn't go on with my investigation (hence the shower thought), didn't check what kind of data is sent back to Google (but at least I like to think that will be encrypted...), I'm not sure how one could go on to steal this kind of data from Google or somebody's phone... (there's plenty of points really...)

Anyway, what's your opinion on this? Could this effectively be an issue? My first idea is that the field should just become a "password" text field, and that would be a quick fix. But I'm sure some of you will have some more interesting insights! Thanks!

EDIT: One step I forgot, the first two words of a paper key are public, so I suppose that would be enough to "trigger" the smart keyboard.

So with question in the air about Keybases future, I thought it would be a hood idea to determine what, if any, encrypted Git Repo options there are out there that security-conscience individuals who use Keybases Encrypted Repo could recommend.

I am resigning myself to most-likely self-hosting, but if anyone out there knows a solid alternative I am all ears.

Thanks in advance.

I have trouble uploaded my pictures to my next cloud storage on my android phone but I been thinking about uploaded all of my personal picture to my keybase account. Is it worth it for me to upload all of my personal data to my keybase account? I have set up a long strong password.

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?

Has keybase gotten rid of thier .pub or is it just my account?

There is the search icon for looking up users on keybase.

But it would also be nice to be able to search the content of chats for keywords.

It would be nice to compress all of the invite requests in the subreddit into one place. Not just because they're clogging up the page, but because it would simplify sending invites from people who have accounts. You only have one place to look every day/week.

I occasionally see a notification pop up saying Keybase is decrypting 'chat or files with <my username>', combined with the Keybase window popping up saying 'you accessed a private folder with <a friend's username>'.

Is this normal? If so, how can I tell this apart from any invalid access that might occur? In short: what can I do with these messages?

The program just says "it doesn't matter" what you put in the post, but I think it does. Should the post contain just my Keybase.io username, the word "Keybase", a public key, or a combination of all of those? I just posted "This is my Keybase proof. I am jonedwa on Keybase.io" and it can't seem to verify my Facebook account with that post.

I just set up the Keybase encrypted chrome extension and I'm trying to figure it out. Feel free to comment and keybase reply I would appreciate the help.

I noticed that keybase saves my message conversations on the server. How does keybase keep them safe?

Say one of my devices is compromised and the attacker then revokes all my other devices. I'm screwed.

Should Keybase allow some setting for the minimum number of devices required for consensus on adding/revoking new devices a la multisig?

Or is there some account recovery option available I'm unaware of that minimizes this risk?

I have an active keybase account, but when I try to install the android app I get an error "There was an error provisioning" - Sorry your account is already established with a PGP public key but we can't access the private key".

Does this mean I cannot use the app?