What I think that they get very right is tying keys to social identity, as these networks function much better as a web of trust than the original PGP version. But I don't know why I can't shake the feeling that this is not a trustworthy service.
Love the service.<p>I've invited few friends (from the IT industry) and nobody ever joined. I guess there aren't so much paranoid/gpg-aware people.<p>So I have 10 invites to give. Let me know.
I have four^Wtwo invites available, if anyone's interested. Message me via email. FIFO and all that.<p>Edit: invites are gone. Try emailing the project leaders for some.
They're also very prompt and responding to fixing bugs. E.g. <a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/12/disclosed-minor-bug-in-keybase-io/" rel="nofollow">https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/12/disclosed-minor-bug-in-keyb...</a><p>Excellent service which makes determining keys much easier.
I have 8 invites, let me know if you want one (see my profile). I would be extra happy if you could send me a lobste.rs invite :).<p>Edit: it turns out that my wife also has 8, so I'll forward once mine are gone.<p>Edit 2: my lobste.rs wish is fulfilled, thanks! We still have some invites left.
I've got 8 invites available. If you have a lobste.rs invite, I'd appreciate one but I'm happy to give the invites away besides.<p><a href="https://keybase.io/bbrown" rel="nofollow">https://keybase.io/bbrown</a>
6 first-come, first served invitations.<p>I love the idea of Keybase and wish more people were using it. While it's not a replacement for keysigning parties, it's a nice probabilistic model for casual security.
My thoughts are that with the implementation of data retention laws in Australia the ultra paranoid arena of PGP is becoming of greater relevance to the average citizen and so a simple, easily implemented, non-centralised, publicly identifiable crypto for everyday comms may become not only viable, but sought after - <a href="http://blog.lrdesign.com/2014/03/thoughts-on-keybase-io/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.lrdesign.com/2014/03/thoughts-on-keybase-io/</a>
I will invite people to lobste.rs. Because of their rules (you misbehave, I have to bear the consequences) I will not just invite anyone, but only people I can find on the net and can be reasonable sure are not assholes.<p>So write me a mail with some information about yourself (have a look at my profile for the address) and if you don't look like a total dick I'll send you an invite.<p>I do have three keybase.io invites as well.
How can a web service encrypt your plaintext unless they have your private key?<p>Edit: ah you up an encrypted private key. I guess it gets decrypted live in your browser, without touching their network, if you trust keybase.io's JS. Whether you do indeed trust keybase IO's JS (it's OSS, yaay, is your browser running exactly what's on GitHub though?) is another matter.