<story><title>Keybase&apos;s mission is to make encryption mainstream</title><url>http://observer.com/2017/09/keybase-max-krohn-chris-coyne-okcupid/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>niftich</author><text>A good article that covers what Keybase is, where they came from, what they try to do, and where they&amp;#x27;re trying to go -- although you couldn&amp;#x27;t tell from the headline. As in the article body, Slack is namedropped just for effect; Keybase Teams being a decent proof-of-concept of a popular kind of application to show that the ideas behind Keybase can be used to build real products.&lt;p&gt;That being said, Keybase has been moving more and more towards building these higher-level services on top of (and app-wise, deeply integrated into) their core offering: Chat, File locker, etc; presumably other than delivering value these offerings make the company easier to position in the grand graph of services, and more palatable for raising capital or as a future acquisition target.</text></comment>
<story><title>Keybase&apos;s mission is to make encryption mainstream</title><url>http://observer.com/2017/09/keybase-max-krohn-chris-coyne-okcupid/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notheguyouthink</author><text>&amp;gt; Two veteran entrepreneurs are running a little startup built around making it easy to build web and mobile applications from day one that make data impossible for a digital trespasser to read. In fact, it encrypts data in such a way that even if you use some company’s service, that company can’t see what you’re doing with it.&lt;p&gt;Is it? Not that I&amp;#x27;m questioning Keybase, I just had no idea they were offering some type of encryption-as-a-service thing. I thought key base offered encrypted identity management, along with some encryption focused tools (kbfs, and now chat). Of course, I don&amp;#x27;t know&amp;#x2F;use key base - hence why I&amp;#x27;m asking.&lt;p&gt;Can anyone go into more detail on how key base is offering this service:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In fact, it encrypts data in such a way that even if you use some company’s service, that company can’t see what you’re doing with it.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Assuming &amp;quot;some company&amp;#x27;s service&amp;quot; is a 3rd party service)&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>