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Ask HN: How will you replace Keybase?

35 pointsby simon1573about 5 years ago
I run a small business with a few friends and Keybase has been great for us. It got all that we need: chat with channels, file sharing with a folder structure and git. That it&#x27;s end-to encrypted* is a great bonus. Since Zoom announced that bought Keybase yesterday, we are no longer comfortable depending on Keybase and will transition to other services.<p>What are some replacements to the features Keybase offers?<p>*proper e2e, not in the lame way Zoom described its interpretation of e2e...

7 comments

Snawootabout 5 years ago
So far I&#x27;ve replaced Keybase with:<p>Association of keys with identity -&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keys.pub&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keys.pub&#x2F;</a><p>Git -&gt; Github via git-remote-gcrypt<p>IM -&gt; Telegram. Not a proper replacement, but works for most of my contacts. Something really secret can be shared via GPG. I guess for your small business a self-hosted Mattermost instance will fit.<p>Files and directories sharing -&gt; syncthing. I use it mostly between my devices.
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nerdwallerabout 5 years ago
There’s been some discussion on this topic here, though a slightly different angle, just for reference - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23103386" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23103386</a>
WorldPeasabout 5 years ago
I&#x27;m probably going to use GNU JAMI as a replacement, as I was already using it to a lesser extent before this debacle
jamiewebabout 5 years ago
Does anyone know of an equivalent product&#x2F;solution for the cryptographically-linked social media identities feature of Keybase?<p>Technically the cryptographic links can still be verified even if Keybase doesn&#x27;t exist anymore, but they did provide a user-friendly interface to set them up, etc.
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kgravesabout 5 years ago
Keybase Chat -&gt; Matrix&#x2F;Riot Zoom -&gt; Jitsi Meet<p>Both of the above alternatives are end to end encrypted (E2EE)<p>As for the social keys aspect of Keybase, hope that Keybase open sources their solution.
dhagzabout 5 years ago
I wish there were a way to tie my existing GPG keys to a keys.pub account.<p>As it is, I&#x27;m probably going to add a well-known to my personal website with my keys.
rasenganabout 5 years ago
You can get all this by running your own server. The plus side of this is that you will also protect a lot more meta data this way (not all, but more).<p>On your own server, you can host your own git repos, your own IRC server, and your own file storage.