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Re:Show HN: A password manager using Keybase for encryption ... by woodruffw on Thursday June 08, 2017 @07:03PM (#14517867)
Well, I wanted something with structured records. `pass` can sort of do that, but it's not built into it.

I also wanted to take advantage of KBFS to do the encryption transparently and expose records as individual files. KBSecret just provides a structure; you can use plain old shell scripts (and I/O primitives) to access your records once they're in place.

It's more of an experiment than anything else currently, but those are the two big motivating ideas.

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Re:Show HN: A password manager using Keybase for encryption ... by rrggrr on Thursday June 08, 2017 @07:33PM (#14518023)
Makes sense. Do we know if KBFS is deemed cryptographically secure? I haven't kept up on it.
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Re:Show HN: A password manager using Keybase for encryption ... by woodruffw on Thursday June 08, 2017 @07:41PM (#14518068)
I don't know if there's been a formal audit, but they've published an overview of their cryptographic methods and practices [1].

They've also open-sourced KBFS itself and the `keybase` client [2][3], but again, not sure on the audit.

[1]: https://keybase.io/docs/crypto/overview

[2]: https://github.com/keybase/kbfs

[3]: https://github.com/keybase/client

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