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| Keybase | |
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 keybase home page as seen on June 3, 2020 | |
| URL | https://keybase.io/ |
| Status | Online! |
| 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=<hash>
Vital Signs
- On 2020-03-07 keybase announced they've been acquired by Zoom.