Keybase

Some time back i used to have my PGP key registered on MIT pgp server http://pgp.mit.edu/. It’s one of the largest public directory for PGP keys, but it’s kind of old fashioned and attracts mostly the academic world.

I’m not entirely sure how i come to find http://keybase.io but it seems a new interesting way to get PGP to the general audience.

It allows, as the slogan say:

Keybase maps your identity to your public keys, and vice versa.

In order to be a truly trusted PKI the registration is done by invitation only which seems interesting in order to maintain some sort of quality assurance, but will make the evolution a lot slower.

So basically this allows you to associate your domain, twitter account, github account,etc with you keys.

It also has it’s own distributed filesystem KBFS.

https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs/understanding_kbfs

Now this, seems to me, like the most important factor on this solution. Because you can quickly access other people keys, trust them, and follow you know friends.

I still have some invites left, in case you are interested drop me an email :)

Cheers,
RR@keybase
https://keybase.io/ruimsramos