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Re:Introducing the Keybase filesystem by k__ on Thursday February 04, 2016 @04:39PM (#11037467)
Does it scale well?

I mean, if I want to do some Torrent like P2P stuff, I need to...

- gather public keys of all the people who want to download from me

- encrypt every chunk for every person separately

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Re:Introducing the Keybase filesystem by mayank on Thursday February 04, 2016 @04:46PM (#11037519)
The second part is usually handled by encrypting a randomly chosen symmetric cipher key using each public key, and then encrypting the file with a symmetric cipher. And I believe keybase was founded to tackle the first problem.
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