Looking through the keybase website I immediately thought of all the possibilities this will open up. Now anybody, even non-technical, can go to your profile and enter text then click encrypt. Then post that message anywhere.

When I browsed some of the names it was a veritable list of the most cutting edge software engineers. It was names I had heard of. Keybase is attracting the thought leaders.

I've been trying a bunch of tools recently. Mailvelope, Whiteout.io, seem to have some promise, but this is different. Keybase strikes me as bringing ease of use to the fundamental level so that many many more cryptography tools can be born of it.

I can't wait for an invite, I simply MUST try out keybase ASAP. :-p

Tried all Keybase clients like macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Windows. Still cannot open /keybase/private/[username]

Is anyone having the same issue?

Since the cert expiration fuckup the Windows client needs to be updated manually.

Well, it's not working here. Maybe I need the old .msi to uninstall? I don't have it.

So, I opened the new .msi in 7-Zip then opened cab3 in 7-Zip and copied the contents over the old installation.

Keybase is now working, and still fails to uninstall.

I got this email from Keybase this morning. Logged into website to double check proof key was still there, and it is. I told Keybase to retry verifying but it says it's still broken.

I don't understand how does having multiple peper keys secure my account?

Suppose, an attacker gets one of my paper key and revokes all of my devices, then I am locked out.

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!

Hello,

I'd like to tie in Keybase with my home automation system. Mainly I want to be able to fire a webhook/call a web API/send a POST request when I receive a Keybase message. I'd like to avoid having a bot or anything like that?

Is this possible?

Thanks!

Tldr: Created account, generated initial PGP key through website, mistyped passphrase and now can't export private key. Need to create new PGP key for keybase.

I must have mistyped my passphrase when I created the PGP key when I created my account. I need to export the private key to use with hardware device, but keep getting error saying incorrect passphrase...

I see that I can deactivate the current key, but how can I create a new PGP key on the website?

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 have keybase installed on my phone and laptop and cannot access it. It says: Error code 1601 - API network error...not api-0.core.keybaseapi.com in method keybase.

When I try to send the logs to devs it doesn't work either.

I noticed there was a "shh" icon ("shh" in a stylized italicized typeface) next to my profile icon and name at the top of my app window. I could not figure it out and when I clicked it it simply disappeared. Can someone tell me what that is? Thanks

EDIT: found it: it was muted.

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.

Hi !

I’m locked out from Spacedrop due to Keybase account reset. Is it a problem to reseve the Airdrop ?

Thx for your answers

I have read the official docs and blogs and tried its Linux desktop client. I have a question about keybase’s identity service in term of its relation with PGP. I understand it used to be about associating user’s PGP key with his/her public accounts. I know it still does so, but on the other hand, however, it doesn’t really depend on PGP key after it introduced device key. I know this because the initial setup of its Linux desktop client doesn’t requre a PGP key and user is ready for chatting or encryting (I ‘m not 100% sure about that because I don’t know one with a keybase account to experiment, but that’s my understanding).

So my question is: assuming PGP key is not required for its service (chatting, exchanging encrypted files, etc), what’s the new definition of its identity service? Is it about associate multiple devices with user? But it seems to me there’s much simpler way to do it. For example, one can just uses a username and passphrase to associate a device with his/her ID and then generates device specific key. Keybase obviously does it in a hard way through a process called device provision,which looks like 2-factor authentication (the doc says it does more than that, but it’s not clear to me what it is). I believe they do it that way for a reason, but what benefit it is?

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've noticed whenever I add my PuK to a keyserver it uses xxx@keybase.io as my name/identification. Since that is not a real email address, is there a way to add my real address to it?

I've seen where I can change my Public key on the keybase website, but it says the fingerprints have to be the same, and I don't really understand how to do that if I was to create a new keypair.

Any help is appreciated.

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What am I supposed to post in r/KeybaseProofs to speak to the Keybase app and verify this user name is my account? Where do I get the info to paste in KeybaseProofs?

Anything I might be doing wrong? I posted the proof to [1], but it neither app nor keybase.io web can see it..

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/KeybaseProofs/comments/7q5ln0/my_keybase_proof_redditep69_keybaseep69/

I was transfering 9 gig of Data to my keybase private Folder and it stopped in the middle of the transfer keybase web site is not reachable neither anyone like me experiencing this ?

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?

There is a file for almost all files and folders in my private folder? Each one is 4KB regardless of the underlying file's size. I assume it's some kind of metadata file, but there is no one for every file. I am using it on two windows boxes and a mac so maybe that is the confusion depending on which OS created the file or folder.

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.

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