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Life & fun · February 4, 2016

Keybase filesystem

Keybase filesystem

Keybase filesystem launched on February 4, 2016 with 21 votes, #1,901 of 4,386 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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What it does

Browse technical documentation on the public-key cryptography that powers Keybase. Learn how Keybase Chats, Files, Teams, and Git are secured.

Alpha releases of the Keybase app are starting to come with a cryptographically secure file mount. It is brand new. And very different. Every file you write in there is signed. There's no manual signing process, no tar ing or gzip ing, no detached sigs. Instead, everything in this folder appears as plaintext files on everyone's computers. You can even open /keybase/public/yourname< in your Finder or Explorer and drag things in. Or maybe you know me another way. In that case you can assert I've bi-directionally connected an identity to my keys. These folder names also work: In my folder you'll find some techie things, such as my SSH public keys, my Signal app fingerprint, and some software…from book.keybase.io

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