Publishing encrypted tweets wouldn't work too well with the character limit and all, unless I suppose we use images and OCR[0].
For things like encrypting emails inline, we could explore it but I'm not convinced it's a good use case: To get all the benefits of Keybase (identity verification, key/device provisioning, improved encryption over PGP), the recipients would also need to have Keybase installed which means you could just use Keybase Chat instead.
Fair point on tweet length. I hadn't considered that. Do Direct Messages have a character limit? I'm unsure.
For Gmail I think it could still make sense for those who have a Keybase account/key, but haven't yet downloaded the app (this was me for a while).
Just as an example, I have a work contact who I am often exchanging passwords with. We use Proton Mail for these, and Gmail for everything else. Saying "I sent you X on proton" is a lot more cumbersome than "here's an encrypted message", and being able to decode it inline.
We could use Keybase's webapp, but it still requires going to an external site to encrypt/decrypt messages. So it's not a big enough draw to change our workflow yet.
I understand the argument that Keybase Chat has more built in benefits, but sometimes you just prefer email to live chat. It's also an easier sell to download a Chrome extension once, than download an app and run it 24/7.
Admittedly that's just my use-case. I like to think of Keybase as easily accessible PGP functionality, so that's where I'm most interested in seeing it grow.
I know Google's working on the problem I described with their end-to-end extension[1], but it's been years in development so who's to say when it'll be ready.
Regardless, I think the product is great. Looking forward to seeing what you guys put out in the future.
Hi SquareWheel.
I use Keybase as a "Here's my Public Key and I am who I say I am".
For e-mail/Gmail I use Mailvelope it's fairly easy to setup and use. I recommend you take a look at that in regards to e-mail encryption if you don't already have a system.
You can see more here:
https://www.mailvelope.com/en
And here is a presentation of mailvelope from the excellent Hak5 team.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDCjhKcA0IE
For things like encrypting emails inline, we could explore it but I'm not convinced it's a good use case: To get all the benefits of Keybase (identity verification, key/device provisioning, improved encryption over PGP), the recipients would also need to have Keybase installed which means you could just use Keybase Chat instead.
[0] https://twitter.com/shazow/status/605748307688890368, https://github.com/Lukasa/entweet