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| description = keybase home page as seen on June 3, 2020
| description = keybase home page as seen on June 3, 2020
| URL = https://keybase.io/
| URL = https://keybase.io/
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| archiving_status = {{notsavedyet}}
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== Vital Signs ==
== Vital Signs ==


* On 2020-03-07 keybase announced they've been acquired by Zoom.
* On 2020-05-07 keybase announced they've been acquired by Zoom[https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-joins-zoom].  Commit activity on the client has significantly dried down since[https://github.com/keybase/client/graphs/contributors], signalling that the project has gone into maintainment mode.


{{ Instant messengers }}
{{ Instant messengers }}

Revision as of 17:07, 3 December 2020

Keybase
Keybase logo
keybase home page as seen on June 3, 2020
keybase home page as seen on June 3, 2020
URL https://keybase.io/
Status Endangered
Archiving status Not saved yet
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

Keybase is a public key directory that allows bi-directionally linking public keys to social media accounts. This is done with proofs to verify the account actually belongs to a given user. Keybase was launched 2014-02-14 and has 407,163 users (as of 2019-08-22).

Archiving

There's a signed merkle tree that serves as a public audit log to prevent tampering. This tree could potentially be traversed to replicate the database. Relevant API endpoints are:

 https://keybase.io/_/api/1.0/merkle/root.json
 https://keybase.io/_/api/1.0/merkle/block.json?hash=77f89c806fe0f896

Documentation is located here:

 https://keybase.io/docs/api/1.0/call/merkle/root
 https://keybase.io/docs/api/1.0/call/merkle/block

Keybase pages

Keybase allows for hosting static websites under custom domains through the Keybase Sites feature.

As of 2020-11-26 some brief downtime has been seen.

Vital Signs

  • On 2020-05-07 keybase announced they've been acquired by Zoom[1]. Commit activity on the client has significantly dried down since[2], signalling that the project has gone into maintainment mode.
Instant messengers
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talkIRC

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ICQAIMYahoo! MessengerMSN MessengerJabber/XMPPQQ

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SkypeGoogle TalkFacebook MessengerWhatsApp

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KikViberSnapchatLINETelegramSlackGitter
KeybaseSignalMusical.ly/TikTokMatrixDiscordInstagram