With the new ownership change, and the privacy-abusing practices of Zoom, Keybase is no longer recommended. This is bad news, and we have updated this review (below) to explain why. UPDATE: Shortly after publishing this review, Keybase announced it was acquire by Zoom. Let’s start by looking at the pros and cons of Keybase messenger capabilities. While Keybase can do everything from encrypted chats to providing a massive amount of free cloud storage, to storing your cryptocurrencies, we are going to concern ourselves primarily with Keybase’s role as a secure messaging service. In this Keybase review you will get a sense of how well they have succeeded. Keybase is meant to eliminate most of the geek work required to use public key encryption. Used properly, public key cryptography can eliminate most of the problems we have with hackers and unwanted government surveillance of the Internet.īut the tools for using this kind of encryption are generally too complicated for all but the most hard-core privacy aficionados.
Keybase was designed to make public key cryptography more accessible to regular people. Chris Dixon, in his message announcing a $10.8 million investment in Keybase. It is a centralized system that applies end-to-end (E2E) encryption to every message you send and every file you store. Keybase is a secure messaging and file-sharing service.
