Keybase browser extension weakness discovered

Respected researcher Wladimir Palant has recommended users “uninstall the Keybase browser extension ASAP” after discovering a gap in its end-to-end encryption. Continue reading Keybase browser extension weakness discovered

Keybase launches end-to-end encrypted git

Keybase is quickly becoming the free and open source way to do anything on a computer with the added benefit of encryption. Two years after nabbing a $10.8 million investment, the tool announced “encrypted git” software designed to create end-to-end encrypted file repositories for individuals and teams. Last month, the company announced Keybase Teams as an encrypted competitor to Slack. That follows Keybase Chat, introduced earlier this year, designed to bring encrypted messaging across social networks. “It is end-to-end encrypted,” the team wrote in a blog post. “It’s hosted, like, say, GitHub, but only you (and teammates) can decrypt any of it. To Keybase, all is but a garbled mess. To you, it’s a regular checkout with no extra steps. Even your repository names and branch names are encrypted, and thus unreadable by Keybase staff or infiltrators. We think this is better than paying a fee to store it in plaintext. Remember, it is impossible to delete […]

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