There’s a lot of promises but it’s still pretty feature light. Maybe this combined with something like Matrix will suite my needs? It’s hard to say right now. There’s a lot of stuff in this list I like. It’s got a big list of features coming soon.Ĭoming soon: Backup keys/secrets to your private self-hosted storage on S3, GCP, Dropbox, etc.Ĭoming soon: Support for hardware keys like SoloKeys, YubiKeys, FIDO2. What it does have over Keybase is it’s not currently owned by Zoom (that’s a big one), and it’s fully open source. This project is in development and has not been audited. It appears to do exactly the stuff I never use Keybase for and doesn’t do all the stuff that I do use Keybase for. It’s missing quite a few of the others, like integrated chat, git, and even crypto-currency. So, it seems to have some of the same features Keybase has. 100% open source ( /keys-pub) and cross platform (macOS, Windows, Linux).Most features available in both the app and on the command line.Create a secure connection ( Wormhole) between 2 computers (using Noise).Encrypt, decrypt, sign, verify (using Saltpack).Search for keys, verify and import them.Manage cryptographic keys, sigchains and user identities.Let’s look at what it does (this is copy and paste right from their site). Maybe it’s just the timing, or maybe it’s the fact that the name sound similar to Keybase (they both have “key” right?), but it’s been in my mind lately. I should start this out by admitting that I know next to nothing about keys.pub, but it has caught my attention. That doesn’t mean I’m not eyeing other products to see if one of them might be a worthy successor to Keybase. As I said yesterday, and will probably keep saying until Zoom discontinues Keybase, I’m not going to delete my Keybase account and will continue to see what Zoom does with it. Yesterday I gave my own thoughts on the recent acquisition of Keybase by Zoom. Mostly The Lonely Howls Of Mike Baying His Ideological Purity At The Moon Home About Mike Contact Me What is Linux? Blogroll Archive Is keys.pub A Worthy Successor To Keybase? Nevertheless, that’s much easier than it used to be.Is keys.pub A Worthy Successor To Keybase? Mike Stone After you’ve signed up, Keybase does still ask you to prove your identity by connecting to another of your online accounts, such as Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, or your own website. Now, however, Keybase makes it much easier to get started. You needed to have a GPG key to use it and almost everything was activated on the command line. When it first came out Keybase was decidedly for power users. Now, however, Keybase has a multitude of functions such as messaging, the ability to encrypt and sync documents between devices, and share documents and folders with other users. Keybase started primarily as a method to prove your identity online. Keybase Keybaseįinally, if you’d like something a little on the geeky side and can get your friends to go along with it, then we’d suggest Keybase as an interesting choice. Viber’s end-to-end encryption, like Telegram, is proprietary however, the company says it does use the same basic idea of a ratchet system like Signal.Īs with some other WhatsApp alternatives, Viber offers a desktop app in addition to mobile. Once that’s done Wire assigns you a username prepended with an similar to Twitter. Alternatively, you can sign-up with email. Similar to Signal and WhatsApp, you can use your phone number to sign-up. Wire is a premium end-to-end encrypted messenger (like Signal) that’s brought to you by some of the same people who developed Skype. If you want to get started with Signal we’ve got an article explaining everything you need to know. Unlike WhatsApp, however, you can customize the amount of time before messages start disappearing. Signal also supports disappearing messages if you use that feature on WhatsApp. You cannot see older messages as you can with WhatsApp. Unlike WhatsApp, however, Signal’s desktop app only shows new messages from the point you started using it (thanks to the strict way it handles encryption and privacy). That said, the service offers a desktop app that achieves similar functionality. One thing Signal does lack is an equivalent to WhatsApp Web for viewing your chats in a web browser on any device.
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