Keybase overview 🔐
Tags: security, git, privacy, chat
Published: 2020-03-16 16:42:38

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title: Keybase overview 🔐
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*Okay, it's not a post on development, but I hope that it could help some of you. Even if the platform is a part of Git. 👋🏼*

* Why Keybase is so useful ?
    * [Prove you're the owner of..](#prove-it)
    * [Discuss safely](#discuss-safely)
    * [Secure your files](#secure-your-files)
    * [Git service](#git-service)

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## ✅ **Prove you're the owner of..**<a name="prove-it"></a>

**You can prove** a little bit of everything on the Internet that it owns by you. Whether it's **social network accounts** like Twitter, Facebook, GitHub, Reddit and **some free and open source services** like Mastodon.

![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/gabnuw2o7ywk86k7kq4e.png)

#### How do you do it?
Either **by validating by a message** on the account you hold ([example](https://twitter.com/hyprimort/status/1172111643079262208)), or by **DNS** or **text file** for websites :

![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/dsrscdcguwj1qidpzcrc.png)

This is very simple !
_**Don't be fooled by a usurper anymore.**_

## 💬 **Discuss safely**<a name="discuss-safely"></a>

On Keybase **you can chat from any platform**, Android/Iphone & Linux/Windows/Apple smartphone. If you already want to download how it works on your side, [it's here](https://keybase.io/download).

Now I'm going to talk about the messages, you can chat with friends and teams, it's **all encrypted**. In addition some options like self-destruction of your message or conversation can be set, like on Telegram. Send files, gifs, emojis,.. etc (messages work with Markdown language)

![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/k6wq4v8tzrxhyvqwh28o.png)


## 🔐 **Secure your files** <a name="secure-your-files"></a>

Following messages when you follow each other, Keybase creates **a private folder accessible only by the two of you**. Or if it is a team, the private folder will be accessible only by the team. So you can put a little bit of everything, such as invoices, images, important documents, but be aware that it is accessible to the whole team that the member has been accepted beforehand. **You have 250GB of free space all to yourself**. Isn't great? 

![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/oomqy2ofty7vz89xy6ep.png)

You have another type of folder, this one is public. Anyone can access it, but it's only for personal accounts, not teams.

[So this is my public part](https://keybase.pub/thomasbnt/) of what you can see and understand why it's interesting.


[More informations of this system here](https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs).

## **Git service**<a name="git-service"></a>

Let's talk about development, on Keybase you have the Git service. I haven't tested that part yet, but it's like any other service, Github is just a layer of design on top and other features. And I think we have 100GB of storage per person.


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**All is encrypted**, you just have to **be careful not to have your physical devices stolen, and to have a strong master password**. Because to connect to your Keybase account, you will need to use one of your devices already connected, or you will need a paper with randomly generated words. This is what I advise you to do from the start!

To help you understand how Keybase works, [here is my graph of my devices and my validations to prove that I am the owner](https://keybase.io/thomasbnt/graph).

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My account is [Thomasbnt on Keybase.io](https://keybase.io/thomasbnt).


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