[Cryptography] Any opinions on keybase.io?
Dennis E. Hamilton
dennis.hamilton at acm.org
Tue Dec 16 16:20:16 EST 2014
-- Replying to --
From: Ben Laurie
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 02:50
On 16 December 2014 at 01:37, Tony Arcieri <bascule at gmail.com> wrote:
> Keybase speaks to how terrible and unusable the existing SKS keyserver
> system is.
>
> However, they're trying to raise the usability bar, but the first thing you
> have to do is install Node.js and run a bunch of crap from the command line.
>
> How is that going to help Johnny encrypt?
Quite so. Not sure if I've mentioned this before on this list, so in
case I haven't: https://simplysecure.org/.
<orcnote>
I think it is to be understood that keybase.io is still in
Alpha and tends to be growing bottom-up.
This seems to be moving further in the right direction,
<http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/11/19/Keybase-Client>.
</orcnote>
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