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Keybase Chat - End-to-end encrypted chat built into Keybase

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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.
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I love the instructions, particularly step one: 1. Buy an Apple computer. 2. Download and open Keybase.dmg.
windows steps lol ... 3. Swear on your life you'll send us bug reports if you find any.
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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 (), although if it asks for one, you can use `friend-of-keybase`. :-)
End2End encryption, I am surprised to learn others don't have that. (maybe shocked) Next platforms?
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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.
nice work, this looks great so far!
Love to see Keybase expanding to other use cases. What about an integration with Livestorm for end-to-end encrypted live video presentations? ;)
Excited for this, didn't expect it at all, if anyone wants an invite DM, I have some.
DMed you @ twitter
yes please, could you send me one?
any luck with one invitation?!
There's no need in one, you can register freely on web
Interesting. What are the advantages over Slack?
comparing it to Slack is a bit too much… ;)
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...?
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,
Do have any plan to provide SDK to integrate with businesses? Like placing Keybase-mini into any app, and app user referring each other by their user id (maybe?)
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.
This is amazing! Any plans of getting the PGP encryption/decryption you have on the site on this desktop client?
started using it, good experience so far, just a bit slower from the common messengers because of the encryption but not a big issue.