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Re:Could keybase.io do for crypto what GitHub did for Git? by el-dawg on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @12:08PM (#7466688)
Isn't gpg already a convenient cli for basic gpg tasks? We have had public keystores (much like github) for decades. There are probably already links to some on your system.
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Re:Could keybase.io do for crypto what GitHub did for Git? by Karunamon on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @12:21PM (#7466794)
Not for end-users it isn't. Even for someone who knows what they're doing, it's a PITA.
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Re:Could keybase.io do for crypto what GitHub did for Git? by el-dawg on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @12:35PM (#7466900)
Well, it isn't a PITA for me, and I couldn't imagine pointing my grandmother at keybase.io yet (but I could imagine installing a cert in her mail client for her). Maybe they have a sweet spot there and I am willing to accept I just don't yet understand who fits. But I don't think I'm that special, and I use gpg happily (and efficiently) every day.
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Re:Could keybase.io do for crypto what GitHub did for Git? by backdraw_ on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @03:58PM (#7468513)
> Isn't gpg already a convenient cli for basic gpg tasks?

There's no way within GPG to easily determine whether you have a trust path to a given key unless you have all the intermediate keys already.

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