It looks like SSB is crying out for Keybase integration. Any plans for being able to add a SSB identity to my Keybase account?
Dunno! Would encourage SSB users to post the request to https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/518.
Are you working on a fully decentralized architecture?
(Speaking personally, not sure what an official Keybase opinion would be.)
No, I don't think the tech is quite there yet. Even just handing out human-readable usernames requires blockchain-style consensus, and we don't have a blockchain being followed along by everyone's machines to adjudicate consensus requests (yet!).
The folks at Blockstack Labs are doing fine work in this area, though: https://blockstack.org/
Re:An off-grid social network
by erlehmann_ on Thursday April 06, 2017 @07:14PM
(#14055595)
Does keybase still upload the private PGP key to the keybase server by default? https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/160
We're trying to move away from PGP to a per-device key model (keys never leave the client devices): https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-new-key-model
Re:An off-grid social network
by erlehmann_ on Thursday April 06, 2017 @07:23PM
(#14055652)
You did not answer my question, but I guess it does not matter with the new strategy. Looks like embrace-extend-extinguish to me – has it always been a goal of Keybase to replace PGP with something keybase-specific or did something change?
Keybase offers decentralized trust, in that the Keybase server can't lie to you about someone's keys -- your Keybase client will trust their public proofs and not the Keybase server -- but it's not a distributed/decentralized service as a whole, because you still receive hints from the server about where proofs live, and learn Keybase usernames from it.
(I work at Keybase.)