Well, you mentioned UX; by coincidence, that’s what I’m working on. I’m doing some work on OpenKeychain, a key/crypto manager app for Android. I’m adding a “cloud search” tab that searches the existing keyserver network and Keybase, in parallel. If I search for “Tim Bray” I get https://www.tbray.org/tmp/tb-keys.png - two of the keys are from keyservers, one from Keybase. Not all are for me.
Maybe more interesting, if I check for “Dominik Schürmann” I get https://www.tbray.org/tmp/ds-keys.png - it’s searched both sides, found the same key in both places, and merged the ancillary information. This isn’t quite released yet: My next work is to allow the Android user to double-check the proofs. I hasten to add: We’re making this up as we go along. If you think you see something terribly wrong, you probably do. Also: To anyone curious about keybase, I have tons of invites. On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Tony Arcieri <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> I'm not convinced that's what is novel about keybase.io, but i do think >> it's tricky to put your finger on what exactly keybase.io is offering >> that people find appealing. > > > I'm confused as well. Perhaps it's simply their visual design. > > I think Keybase is in some sort of uncanny valley where it makes the PGP > experience prettier but not necessarily that much easier, especially for > novice users. As soon as you ask people to download and install a > command-line utility you've just lost most of the human population. > > That said, the UX of existing keyservers is horrendous. For technical > users, I think Keybase does improve aspects of keyserver UX. > > This is, again, why I'm more excited about systems in which a user's > service provider publishes keys on their behalf, provided there are checks > in place to help people detect if the key directory is being dishonest > about their key. These systems seem like they can be mostly transparent for > your average, non-technical user, which is the main thing I think is needed > right now. > > -- > Tony Arcieri > -- - Tim Bray (If you’d like to send me a private message, see https://keybase.io/timbray)
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