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Re:Keybase’s browser extension subverts its encryption by giancarlostoro on Friday September 07, 2018 @07:44AM (#17933491)
Have you tried / compared Wire[0] by chance? I love Wire cause it's simple, my only recommendation is to register from a browser on your desktop, it asks for your number on the phone app, but you don't need to register like that. I also like that you can delete your account and nuke everything. The back-end is open source as well. Though KeyBase gets the UI / UX factor perfect, I wish some hardcore crypto devs would take KeyBase and make it more rock solid.

[0]: https://wire.com/

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Re:Keybase’s browser extension subverts its encryption by ReverseCold on Friday September 07, 2018 @09:45AM (#17934159)
Wire's apps feel slow and bloated on both desktop and mobile. Compared to Telegram, Wire is almost unusable.
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Re:Keybase’s browser extension subverts its encryption by walterbell on Friday September 07, 2018 @10:30AM (#17934500)
As a user, Wire has been fast and reliable and usable (even by non-techies) on iOS for several years, across a wide range of network conditions and hostile networks.

They are contributing to an IETF protocol (“MLS”) for E2E messaging, which is a long-term path to messenger interoperability.

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Re:Keybase’s browser extension subverts its encryption by giancarlostoro on Friday September 07, 2018 @01:00PM (#17935828)
I have not had the described slowness on Android and Windows (I think I tried it on Linux too) so I'm not sure what the parent commentator is speaking of.

Edit:

Relevant: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-barnes-mls-protocol-00

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Re:Keybase’s browser extension subverts its encryption by thwarted on Friday September 07, 2018 @01:02PM (#17935849)
a long-term path to messenger interoperability.

I remember when we had that before E2E was popularized, it was standardized, and then walled gardens broke their interoperability in the name of (claimed) better user experience and user numbers.

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