Keybase ha donat suport a les identitats de Coinbase des del llançament públic inicial, però va deixar de fer-ho el 17 de març de 2017 quan Coinbase va acabar amb les pàgines de pagament públic. També admet adreces de moneders com Bitcoin, Zcash i Stellar. Keybase admet la connexió pública de les identitats de Twitter, GitHub, Reddit, Hacker News i Mastodon, inclosos llocs web i dominis sota el control, a claus de xifratge. locats a la part pública del sistema de fitxers es publiquen des d'un punt final públic, i localment des d'un sistema de fitxers muntat pel client Keybase.A més, ofereix un sistema d'emmagatzematge de xat al núvol i xifrat de punt a punt, anomenat Keybase Chat i el sistema de fitxers Keybase respectivament. Keybase és un directori de claus de xifrat que assigna les identitats a mitjans de comunicació socials a les claus de xifratge (incloses, però no limitades a claus PGP ) de manera auditable públicament.It's backed up by a very well-sorted platform that allows you to securely chat and share files thanks to high-end encryption technology, all wrapped in a package that basically works very much like a social media network.
Having said all that, Keybase is an app with a very interesting concept behind it that's quite relevant to our times.
Encrypted file sharing and secure chat, now easier than ever before It may be a bit frustrating to get it fully up and running, since it requires you to create an account, validate it and link various accounts to your profile - which also require you to undergo yet another "proving" procedure. Everything you need is located in the vertical toolbar on the left side of the main window, which hosts six, self-explanatory categories, as follows: Search, Folders, Chat, Devices, Settings, and Profile. Complex underpinnings, yet super-intuitive user interfaceīetter yet, it's actually fairly easy to use, mainly thanks to a modern and relatively simplistic user interface. For instance, it allows you to link your profile to other accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, GitHub, Hacker News, and it even allows you to setup Bitcoin or Zcash addresses. For instance, you can look up people and follow them, just as you're used to doing on Facebook or Twitter, for example.įurthermore, it's perfectly capable of "mapping" your identity to your public key. The app provides you with a secure environment for sharing files, as well as for chatting purposes, thanks to its built-in encryption features.Īnother interesting aspect is just how much this platform resembles a typical social media network. With that out of the way, let's concentrate on the basics. Encryption technology and social media structure, neatly intertwined It started life as both a command-line utility and as a web application, and now it also comes with clients, found under the same moniker, for Windows, macOS, and Linux, as well as for two of the most popular mobile platforms, iOS, and Android.
More to the point, Keybase is an open-source platform, built on the model of a somewhat-basic social network, that aims to simplify the whole end-to-end encryption process and make it widely accessible, both for communication and file sharing purposes. Well, Keybase aims to have an important saying in the matter. Privacy, confidentiality, cryptography are just some of the words we will be hearing more and more in the years to come, not surprising, considering our ever-so-increasing concerns regarding data security.Įven though neither the concept of data encryption and the tools around it are not especially new, one thing's for sure: using comprehensive encryption methods is not exactly something that most typical users are able to handle.
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