Keybase Project Plans to Make Cryptography as Easy as Twitter
A new project called Keybase is attempting to make cryptographic keys, like those used for bitcoin wallets, easier for everyone to use. One of the most important elements of bitcoin is arguably the cryptographic key pair, and every wallet has two keys: a public one as an advertised address, and a private one that controls it. Yet, the system is not perfect. Key pairs are confusing for many users and there isn't yet an effective, decentralized way by which keys can be linked to an identity, thus proving ownership. Keybase believes it can help make using keys more secure and understandable....
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Keybase, a cryptographic message and verification startup, has raised US$10.8 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz and including angel investors and entrepreneurs such as Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, MakerBot co-founder Bre Pettis and Chain.com CEO Adam Ludwin. Keybase was founded last year as a hobby project of OKCupid co-founders Max Krohn and Chris Coyne, who sold the dating site to Match.com for US$50 million. With this venture, Krohn and Coyne hope to help people obtain public cryptography keys to encrypt and secure information sent via email. The....
The founders of the online dating site OkCupid has raised $10.8 million for their new cryptography venture. Dubbed as Keybase, the project is an attempt towards introducing public key cryptography, like those used by Bitcoins, to everyone in the world. With doing so, the makers expect to secure online message sharing, as well as to provide passwordless login systems, safer software developments, data backups and collaborations, and easily deletable videos and photos' services. The project however was started with a core aim to introduce encrypted messaging between two parties. As stated in....
There’s a new application in crypto-land called Keybase.io a platform that promises cryptographically ensured file sharing. The service boasts a system of verifiable signed directories that also using the Bitcoin blockchain to anchor a user’s keys. This, in turn, allows people to encrypt file sharing with a public and private folder, providing....
Keybase is a new encrypted cloud storage and file sharing application different from all the other services out there. Digital storage has moved from good old floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, magnetic hard disks to cloud storage. There are lot of players out there offering cloud based file storage services. Some of the big names in cloud based storage systems include Google (with their Google Drive), Microsoft (OneDrive), Apple (iCloud), Dropbox, Box and others. Using cloud storage services comes with its own advantages in terms of accessibility and flexibility when it comes to storage space....
BitPay took to the stage to announce an intriguing new project called Foxtrot at the San Francisco Bitcoin Developer Meetup yesterday. BitPay CEO Stephen Pair made the presentation, explaining that the open-source effort is designed as a simple, secure and decentralized communications network based on bitcoin cryptography. The company describes Foxtrot as a decentralized routing network that enables easy peer-to-peer (p2p) communications, with built-in mechanisms for peer discovery, creation of services addressable by public keys and establishing encrypted connections. Pair explained:....