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Title: PGP Questions
Post by: marcotheminer on April 13, 2015, 07:14:28 AM
What PGP Service Should I Use? I think I got it.

What's keybase.io?


Title: Re: What PGP Service Should I Use?
Post by: defcon23 on April 13, 2015, 07:18:48 AM
What PGP Service Should I Use?
That's depend of your OS. For Linux, i love to use KGPG , easy to use.. or Kleopatra  :)


Title: Re: What PGP Service Should I Use?
Post by: freemind1 on April 13, 2015, 07:27:29 AM
Hi marcotheminer, depends on which OS you use, in Debian and Ubuntu you can use GnuPG for example, for Windows PGPi .


Title: Re: What PGP Service Should I Use?
Post by: marcotheminer on April 13, 2015, 07:29:31 AM
Thanks for the replies. What's keybase.io?


Title: Re: What PGP Service Should I Use?
Post by: shorena on April 13, 2015, 07:32:45 AM
Thanks for the replies. What's keybase.io?

A way to exchange the public keys. I dont think there is a service that keeps your private keys. The idea behind PGP is that only you have your private key and no one else.


Title: Re: PGP Questions
Post by: defcon23 on April 13, 2015, 07:34:45 AM
i used:    https://keyserver.pgp.com/  
 or          http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/  

but theres a lot of similar services..


Title: Re: PGP Questions
Post by: Gisado on April 13, 2015, 11:14:00 AM
Keybase.io is a centralized GPG public key repository - it stores public key, provide option to
  • store private key in encrypted form so you can do decrypt/sign messages on web(really optional, I discourage this - think of you storing your bitcoin private key on a service like coinbase)
  • lookup others' key and encrypt with their public key
  • verify others' signed messages which message is signed with the key stored on keybase.io

I'd recommend just use decentralized SKS keyservers - just use "gpg --send-key (KEYID)" on a terminal (assuming you are on GNU/Linux) and it's all set.

ps. If someone wants Keybase.io invitations, feel free to send me a PM after reading this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=995020.0).