-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 There is a thoughtful critique of keybase.io here:
http://blog.lrdesign.com/2014/03/thoughts-on-keybase-io/ I have 2 invites left if you'd like to try it out (preference will go to those of you I know (in the biblical key-signing sense) or have met in person). I do think it is a clever take on PGP user experience... there are a few red flags, such as (optionally!) storing an encrypted copy of your private key on their server. yikes. best, Joe On 3/21/14, 7:17 PM, Tim Bray wrote: > Slightly off-topic, but there?s this thing called keybase.io > <http://keybase.io> that is doing what feels like a pretty good job > to me of wrapping up GPG in a palatable UI (web & command line) > with a key directory so that while I, for example, have never taken > the trouble to install E2E encryption in my mail, I can see using > keybase to encrypt particularly sensitive stuff. Don?t know if > they?ve got just the right set of features, but it feels like > there?s an 80/20 point lurking out there somewhere. My blog on the > subject is (I hope) an OK introduction: > https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/03/19/Keybase > > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Stephen Farrell > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > > Hi Fred, > > On 03/21/2014 10:21 PM, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: >> Wouldn?t it be interesting to solve the problem at hand rather >> than the one we think we might already know how to solve? > > You're correct. Unfortunately, for mail, despite decades of work on > e2e security we are no nearer to a technology that is likely to be > very widely used/deployed. I wish that were not the case, but it > is. And that's the case for fairly well understood reasons that > were rehearsed on this list late last year. (Can't recall when, > sorry.) > > At the same time, I'd encourage those brave enough to be working on > that problem to keep at it - one of you will probably get right > eventually. > > S. > > _______________________________________________ perpass mailing > list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass > > > > > _______________________________________________ perpass mailing > list [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass > - -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall Chief Technologist Center for Democracy & Technology 1634 I ST NW STE 1100 Washington DC 20006-4011 (p) 202-407-8825 (f) 202-637-0968 [email protected] PGP: https://josephhall.org/gpg-key fingerprint: 3CA2 8D7B 9F6D DBD3 4B10 1607 5F86 6987 40A9 A871 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJTMbjbAAoJEF+GaYdAqahxJAAQAIxK2XTdNYrNBFELb+/WJpZ5 tW9BxSWp6eWK3xNeGZvzhOdQq1Vr1taAHnSR2xv4xZGvHUMdaDwK+7phRp71VO9P 02SlpLP2cxHEL4FytrJGIJvDHXIkq9nJASxfifcNIOB4L6iWEYOx7vQQDYCHQPXs ROad4ZrjG7AnfS50VB0P0yl4iPGaym4jPZKz6nmJxrqpLJ1dcUiNQpKRbch15VKr n1hMCCNIY6ZMovztcoek4K/OhmMbMyMgbODHjPRWWpAVWjG7Yyscck7iFlFR3VHj WJjxAQGFzzZfh/nkL3I3gOHIZb8VfUjEl1JojnmFigmmYUygFI9J+CP9w8YzYlOA WdWTSZs5MQ5iDYLo7zT+Umo4xBDfhyjmqNyxyZ+EVJciZqlRnNQxUHuIXiYV/bzZ WLi8DP6AZuu7kCaTMTDrYR2GKes0sMZlVMAuOgdR7IIv4tV6lJA5VksvRtsgISeH V8OPw2AbTNF1sy7CkArnvbjrh63veJGWdxA/mLr34KtEJT7+eJzdIcFujJ0kNM1z loocEm7nzYZcGOtWIqbixmYoJmO2XdQzCauTwp72iZevVZ8SFIzbTP2FBhyqN53C cTa2xkMnzagn9ebcRyMR1DvKfAs/5TP7YEM8Ms8KJOpEJrTYQYXFXUEV1Jr7HBpx 0j8UipQCLcKUl1NkmeFt =huSL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ perpass mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass
