[messaging] WhatsApp & OWS team up

[Nikos Roussos]

On November 18, 2014 9:42:12 PM EET, Tim Bray <tbray at textuality.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Tao Effect <contact at taoeffect.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Cracking the usable key verification problem. This move brings
>WhatsApp to
>> the same level of security as iMessage (or better, given the forward
>> security), but WhatsApp/Facebook could still do a switcheroo on
>people's
>> keys. TextSecure never really figured this out IMO - it still expects
>> people to manually compare long strings of hex.
>>
>>
>> I will, a
>> ​​
>> s seems to be my role here, recommend the blockchain and a system
>like
>> DNSChain for solving this problem. :-)
>>
>
>​And I will, as seems to be *my* role here, ​recommend checking out
>keybase.io, which you can use without trusting, and provides what
>smells to
>me like extremely practical probabilistic key<=>person mapping
>confidence.

But keybase is centralized. No?