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Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by herval on Thursday May 07, 2020 @12:47PM (#23105082)
While it's a cool tool, what exactly was the (commercial) potential Keybase had? I could never tell.
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by bloopernova on Thursday May 07, 2020 @01:45PM (#23105823)
Ability to assign roles(groups) to heterogeneous users.

So imagine being able to add [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected] to cool-dev-group and them being to instantly be able to access the relevant chat rooms, git repos, shared folders, etc. If password/secret management had been added, then access to that too could have been allowed. If SSO/Oauth had been added, then any service could be covered by this sort of role-based-access-control-for-anyone.

So no user has been created, they're using their existing identity to access new resources. With some extra coding, triggers and events could have been added to do things like auto-sign public keys.

Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by gallamine on Thursday May 07, 2020 @12:50PM (#23105117)
Secure filesharing and chat, for starters. Secure digital wallets tied to identity. It was a wallet platform I'd actually be interested in.
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by chupasaurus on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:36PM (#23106483)
Encrypted git repos with ties to team chat...
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by brigandish on Thursday May 07, 2020 @11:15PM (#23111054)
That's what I've been using it for lately, it was becoming my main Git platform. I'm sad that this looks like the end of that.