Re: Mail address to account conversion (keybase.io)

2017-01-25 Thread ankostis
Maybe that's an opportunity to put to use "notations , and self-sign the keybase-uidusing --cert-notation. Of course, nobody would care to check that, but would there be any other issue down this road? Kind Regards, Kostis On 25 January 2017 at 23:39, Felix Van der Jeugt < felix.vanderje...@gm

Re: Mail address to account conversion (keybase.io)

2017-01-25 Thread Felix Van der Jeugt
Excerpts from Andrew Gallagher's message of 2017-01-25 18:10:56 +: > True, people might try to email you on that ID, but the worst that > will happen is they get a bounce (and you have other, usable IDs on > the same pubkey I assume). I indeed do have those, but I'm not sure keybase will bounc

Re: Mail address to account conversion (keybase.io)

2017-01-25 Thread Felix Van der Jeugt
Excerpts from Christian Heinrich's message of 2017-01-26 09:19:42 +1100: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 1:51 AM, Felix Van der Jeugt > wrote: > > Recently, keybase.io stopped their email forwarding service. Now, my > > noc...@keybase.io uid can no longer receive email. I'd

Re: Mail address to account conversion (keybase.io)

2017-01-25 Thread Christian Heinrich
Felix, On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 1:51 AM, Felix Van der Jeugt wrote: > Recently, keybase.io stopped their email forwarding service. Now, my > noc...@keybase.io uid can no longer receive email. I'd normally revoke > the uid, but my account, keybase.io/noctua, can still receive mess

Re: Mail address to account conversion (keybase.io)

2017-01-25 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 25/01/17 14:51, Felix Van der Jeugt wrote: > Dear all, > > Recently, keybase.io stopped their email forwarding service. Now, my > noc...@keybase.io uid can no longer receive email. I'd normally revoke > the uid, but my account, keybase.io/noctua, can still receive me

Mail address to account conversion (keybase.io)

2017-01-25 Thread Felix Van der Jeugt
Dear all, Recently, keybase.io stopped their email forwarding service. Now, my noc...@keybase.io uid can no longer receive email. I'd normally revoke the uid, but my account, keybase.io/noctua, can still receive messages through the website. I'm in a dilemma now: should I revoke the u

Re: keybase.io

2016-09-01 Thread Mirimir
On 09/01/2016 02:15 AM, Werner Koch wrote: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 08:34, miri...@riseup.net said: > >> Ensuring that you keep talking to the same key is pretty easy. >> The hard thing is knowing what key is correct for someone who's >> defined only by an online presence. Where you have no WoT >> ov

Re: keybase.io

2016-09-01 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 08:34, miri...@riseup.net said: > Ensuring that you keep talking to the same key is pretty easy. The > hard thing is knowing what key is correct for someone who's defined > only by an online presence. Where you have no WoT overlap. Comparing You see signed message from someone

Re: keybase.io

2016-08-31 Thread Mirimir
On 09/01/2016 12:02 AM, Werner Koch wrote: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 02:55, miri...@riseup.net said: > >> verification of meatspace identity is a benefit, no? There's no >> privacy in attending a key signing party, is there? > > I have long stopped to consider key signing parties a useful thing. > Th

Re: keybase.io

2016-08-31 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 02:55, miri...@riseup.net said: > verification of meatspace identity is a benefit, no? There's no privacy > in attending a key signing party, is there? I have long stopped to consider key signing parties a useful thing. The WoT is helpful but is independent of such events. T

Re: keybase.io (was: Key Discovery Made Simple)

2016-08-31 Thread Christian Heinrich
Werner, On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Werner Koch wrote: > I am not sure, but I heard that keybase.io is moving towards a > centralized system for encrypted message exchange. keybase.io ulterior motive is for the end user to use their PGP/GPG Javascript implementation but it

Re: keybase.io

2016-08-31 Thread Mirimir
On 08/31/2016 01:45 AM, Werner Koch wrote: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 04:27, miri...@riseup.net said: > >> What are the defects in <https://keybase.io/>? > > They not even try to minimize the use of meta data but use privacy > invading services (Facebook, Twitter, etc) to

keybase.io (was: Key Discovery Made Simple)

2016-08-31 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 04:27, miri...@riseup.net said: > What are the defects in <https://keybase.io/>? They not even try to minimize the use of meta data but use privacy invading services (Facebook, Twitter, etc) to connect the key into a way larger network than what we have with the Web