Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase
by StavrosK on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:56AM
(#23103000)
keys.pub doesn't have the single most useful feature Keybase has: The ability to verifiably establish a secure channel with anyone given their Twitter/Github/whatever username.
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Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase
by floatingatoll on Thursday May 07, 2020 @10:15AM
(#23103204)
Their homepage advertises 'keys pull username@github' as an example. Is the missing piece you describe here simply the command 'keys chat username@github'?
No, it's the cryptographic attestation so you know you are getting the right key.
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase
by Squithrilve on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:11PM
(#23106154)
They don't support it? That's weird (maybe a missing feature) given that it's quite easy to add to anything that has signed metadata, see e.g. this for OpenPGP: https://github.com/wiktor-k/openpgp-proofs#openpgp-proofs
I'm not very familiar with the service, but AFAIK they don't. It would be great if they added it.
EDIT: It looks like it might, from the front page, I will try it out to make sure. If it does, that'll be great!
EDIT 2: It sort of does, but it's on a per-key basis, not an entire identity. You can publish proof on Twitter/Github/whatever, but it's only for one specific key, and it's one key per service, which means you can't only have one identity and multiple services.