<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Well, you mentioned UX; by coincidence, that’s what I’m working on. I’m doing some work on OpenKeychain, a key/crypto manager app for Android. I’m adding a “cloud search” tab that searches the existing keyserver network and Keybase, in parallel. If I search for “Tim Bray” I get <a href="https://www.tbray.org/tmp/tb-keys.png" target="_blank">https://www.tbray.org/tmp/tb-keys.png</a> - two of the keys are from keyservers, one from Keybase. Not all are for me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Maybe more interesting, if I check for “Dominik Schürmann” I get <a href="https://www.tbray.org/tmp/ds-keys.png" target="_blank">https://www.tbray.org/tmp/ds-keys.png</a> - it’s searched both sides, found the same key in both places, and merged the ancillary information.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">This isn’t quite released yet: My next work is to allow the Android user to double-check the proofs.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I hasten to add: We’re making this up as we go along. If you think you see something terribly wrong, you probably do.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Also: To anyone curious about keybase, I have tons of invites.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Tony Arcieri <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bascule@gmail.com" target="_blank">bascule@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dkg@fifthhorseman.net" target="_blank">dkg@fifthhorseman.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm not convinced that's what is novel about <a href="http://keybase.io" target="_blank">keybase.io</a>, but i do think<br>
it's tricky to put your finger on what exactly <a href="http://keybase.io" target="_blank">keybase.io</a> is offering<br>
that people find appealing.</blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I'm confused as well. Perhaps it's simply their visual design.</div><div><br></div><div>I think Keybase is in some sort of uncanny valley where it makes the PGP experience prettier but not necessarily that much easier, especially for novice users. As soon as you ask people to download and install a command-line utility you've just lost most of the human population.</div><div><br></div><div>That said, the UX of existing keyservers is horrendous. For technical users, I think Keybase does improve aspects of keyserver UX.</div><div><br></div><div>This is, again, why I'm more excited about systems in which a user's service provider publishes keys on their behalf, provided there are checks in place to help people detect if the key directory is being dishonest about their key. These systems seem like they can be mostly transparent for your average, non-technical user, which is the main thing I think is needed right now.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br>Tony Arcieri<br>
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