Zoom Acquires Keybase

Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by chupasaurus on Thursday May 07, 2020 @03:34PM (#23107204)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22997245 and requiring gnome-keyring on Linux are issues for me.

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Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by Spivak on Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:02PM (#23107555)

Does it actually require GNOME Keyring or does it just use libsecret? Because libsecret is dope and has been nothing but a joy to work with.

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Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by trey-jones on Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:51PM (#23108150)

I've seen some examples of GNOME keyring being required because it implements the freedesktop secrets standard (which I admit to knowing nothing of) where other secret managers do not. Presumably meaning there us no common interface, so we just pick the one that implements the spec. One example:

https://github.com/pithos/pithos/issues/559

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Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by chupasaurus on Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:21PM (#23107798)

https://keys.pub/docs/specs/keyring.html

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Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by terrywang on Saturday May 09, 2020 @07:34PM (#23129109)

It's (dependency on gnome-keyring) been fixed in the latest release [1].

Assuming GNOME shell is Linux users' default desktop environment is very wrong.

However, providing desktop GUI app in AppImage format is great.

[1]: https://github.com/keys-pub/app/issues/6

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Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by pmorici on Thursday May 07, 2020 @07:21PM (#23109543)

Those looks like differences and matters of preference not anything "wrong" about it.

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Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by namibj on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:09AM (#23111883)

Well, there are reasons why Keybase changed from key-centric to identity-centric back in 2015: https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-new-key-model

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