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What is Keybase?

Keybase is a new and free security app for mobile phones and computers. For the geeks among us: it's open source and powered by public-key cryptography. Keybase is for anyone. Imagine a Slack for the whole world, except end-to-end encrypted across all your devices. Or a Team Dropbox where the server can't leak your files or be hacked.

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Keybase is a new and free security app for mobile phones and computers. For the geeks among us: it's open source and powered by public-key cryptography. Keybase is for anyone. Imagine a Slack for the whole world, except end-to-end encrypted across all your devices. Or a Team Dropbox where the server can't leak your files or be hacked.


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0.0 out of 5
"An overly publicized failure"
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Emmanuel S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Cloud access encryption and instant messaging."
Interface and activity control from a graphical interface, control of files and documents to share with work friends within an encrypted network, i...
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5.0 out of 5
"Keybase for sending messages encrypted"
The way we can send secured messages to the team.
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Verified User in Computer & Network Security
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What do you like best about Keybase?

Design . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keybase?

Everything else . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keybase solving and how is that benefiting you?

It should have been of great benefit to the project as a third-party validation and data sharing resource.

But at the moment (2023) we can observe that, apart from marketing, the product is not developing in any way.

If you look for reviews on the Internet, you can find out that the current functionality (and problems with it) have not changed in three years.

Three points stood out to me in particular:

1 - Unstable operation of the server (absolutely the entire project is tied to it), which can cause problems in applications

2 - 3900 open issues on Github that no one is even trying to answer

3 - a “safe operating algorithm” that is in excellent synergy with all the bugs and requires at least 5 days to fix the problems that the crooked software created. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Keybase?

Interface and activity control from a graphical interface, control of files and documents to share with work friends within an encrypted network, it does not go through unknown external servers; it is open source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keybase?

Installation on Linux systems is tedious for unlisted distributions; compiling the code is not easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keybase solving and how is that benefiting you?

Encryption of messages and files sent within instant messaging in a workgroup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
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What do you like best about Keybase?

The way we can send secured messages to the team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keybase?

It is not that much used in an organization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keybase solving and how is that benefiting you?

To pass the secret keys for DB or any infrastructure related which need to be sent in secure manner Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Keybase?

Keybase is not a single app, it is a suite of multiple apps and these apps are very likeable:

Chat application: If you are a slack user and love the of inter company communication, Keybase runs a natively more secure Slack-esq chat app. I like the fact that one does not have a limited search history. The best part about keybase is that is is just like slack, but its free and more secure.

Encrypted Git: Git is a developer's best friend, but trusting a platform like Github does not guarantee privacy and security for the source code, but Keybase's Git helps store code safely.

Groups: Groups can be effectively leveraged to improve intra company communication, Keybase lets you create unlimited groups that let you post code snippets to memes.

Secure file and code storage: If you're a fan of dropbox, Keybase is a more secure version of dropbox without the hefty price tag.

Focus on privacy and security: Keybase is a security first focussed app. It lets even laypeople encrypt their files and sign messages to ensure privacy and integrity.

Support for sending money: This does not let you send money like Indian rupees, United states dollars or the euro, but Keybase lets you send Stella lumens, which is fungible and can be used as money, the icing on the cake is Keybase gives away free stellar lumens to its uses. Yes you read it right, they give users free money, which is a good incentive to use keybase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keybase?

The learning curve for non technical users can be a bit too steep. This app can be overwhelming for people that do not understand PGP, encryption or digital signatures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Keybase:

Keybase is one of kind and if you're sensitve about the budget, just go for it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keybase solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me store code , store files, chat with colleagues and friends. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mikael F.
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What do you like best about Keybase?

That security and privacy is top priorities in Keybase Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keybase?

The apps can be a bit slow sometimes. Especially when it's encrypting files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keybase solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ad-hoc credential sharing, chat, git, file sharing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Keybase?

I make good use of the Git, and the chat - for chatting to other developers. The file storage is also useful and rather simple to use. Keybase is also cross platform (including mobile). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keybase?

The lack of UI for the Git history and such can be a little irritating - for example, pull request/view would be great, that being said it can be achieved on the CLI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Keybase:

The UX can occasionally leave a little to be desired - but realistically it's trying to simplify something rather complicated. It's also trying to achieve a lot of things in one single, free application - whilst remaining appealing to multiple parties. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keybase solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's enabled us to use PGP and such easily - which gives us an easy cross platform way of sharing secrets to third parties when needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Keybase?

We are able to define whether git repositories are either public or private. One also has the power to access their files as if they are using a local file browser. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keybase?

A user can revoke one of their devices from any account, and this beats the main essence of being able to revoke as you might get kicked out by the attacker Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Keybase:

Keybase is awesome to use and prospective clients shall not be let down when they choose this software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keybase solving and how is that benefiting you?

We looked for a collaboration software that could incorporate git repositories Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stephen G.
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What do you like best about Keybase?

The PGP and open source focus of the company. Nice to see a company focusing on using established security technologies and making them easier to use and more applicable to average consumers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keybase?

The constant movement of the product. Started as a public, easy to use PGP based directory, pivoted to file system, then chat. As pivots happen, other features tend to atrophy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Keybase:

Make sure there's strong user support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keybase solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tried as a replacement to chat at work. Slow user adoption, not preferred over Slack, hasn't been as popular as desired Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Keybase?

Keybase chat looks like Slack's or Discord's ... but unlike these it's encrypted end-to-end, which means you do not have to worry about server hacks, or fear security breaches in the history of the server. messages from your company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keybase?

Todavía le faltan funciones para que llegue al nivel del la versión de Web o PC pero los desarrolladores hay hecho una app increíble, una interfaz muy cuidada y manteniendo el aspecto del diseño original Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Keybase:

This application offers users a GUI with panels, tabs, animations and well-organized configurations.

We can hold conversations with people from all over the world without needing to know your phone number or email address.

We will have the possibility to chat in groups, use # tags and @ mentions to facilitate communication and search.

We will be able to search for profiles of people easily in different social networks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keybase solving and how is that benefiting you?

Its benefits and programs provide simple ways to transmit. for protection gaps in the history of the messages of your company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Food & Beverages
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What do you like best about Keybase?

What I like best about keybase is the fact that I can chat with other users for the home health company that I work with. We use it to touch base with clients that are far away from us, and to stay in contact with Ethan family and but most of all our clients or our vendors that we use throughout our company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keybase?

Often times when we go on keybase, we have a lot of problems or issues connecting with the chat so sometimes you have to continuously try to connect to the chat so that we can talk to each other Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keybase solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's really easier when the chat does work to be able to communicate through the chat instead of through text message we use as that we're not on our personal cell phones and we're using less than using our company phone so it it works good for us. In that aspect when it does work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.