@chrism Hey Chris I came across one of your Nix videos (thankyou for spreading the good word!) and noticed a Keybase icon in your dock.
In case you had not come across it, I figured I would toss a http://keyoxide.org recommendation - nicely handling the identity side of the Keybase equation.
I established myself there before someone at Zoom HQ trips over a cable, not bothering to plug it back in.
@AngryAnt@chrism could you expand a little on this?
Keybase got taken over by zoom did it not? And it's now in the hands of ... How does keyoxide fit into all of this?
@delegatevoid@chrism Keybase offered e2e chat, storage, and payment (still offers the first two), but the key feature is verified online identity.
Say you get an email saying "hey it's me, AngryAnt from mastodon", checking my keyoxide registration, you can see both my mastodon account and the domain of that email or the key it was signed with verified as belonging to the same person.
That was a key part of what drew me to Keybase, so I'm glad to have an alternative.
@delegatevoid@chrism The reason why I might very well need an alternative is that when Zoom, in response to critique of their false claims of security, acquihired the hottest encryption team at the time, Keybase, they predictably halted all Keybase product development.
Not only that, but issue resolution time has skyrocketed and recently they even forgot to renew the core client/server certs - rendering mobile clients inoperable for days.
It is not a question of "if" Keybase is going away.
@delegatevoid@chrism What is interesting with Keyoxide, aside from its not-dead-ness, is its open source and distributed nature.
The project was started in direct response to the Zoom acquisition, with the explicit goal of wanting something which does not run the same service risk.
@AngryAnt@chrism so it's all about identify verification, then I will take a look at it.
I was using Keybase primarily for it's chat and git features. I've never used zoom and things like Signal, Matrix, etc... just don't work here. I remember identity verification in the 90's with PGP public key servers.
Before Keybase I was using/worked on BItmessage for a while, and now I've resorted to using Delta.Chat.
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