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0 pointslxgr2y ago0 comments

Is Keyoxide based on the Keybase codebase, or is it a new development?

I quite enjoyed Keybase back in the day, but then they pivoted to being a crypto wallet, and were ultimately acquired by Zoom (a move I understand less every day, since they obviously gave up on their bold promises of end-to-end encryption they made back in 2020).

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notpushkin2y ago

It's completely new, and based entirely on PGP. The proofs are stored with your PGP key, so it's also decentralized. It doesn't have any amenities like chat or file storage – it only maps your social networks to a given PGP key. But I believe third parties (like Matrix) could step up and support it natively – all the benefits of Keybase, none of the drawbacks.

lloeki2y ago

Not entirely clear but it doesn't seem so from the launch post verbiage:

https://blog.keyoxide.org/keyoxide-launch/

Code lives here if you want to dig:

https://codeberg.org/keyoxide

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