YouTube - Network Q&A 1

New YouTube Channel

Coronavirus! Yeah, that’s a thing right now. It’s day 21 since I was asked to self-isolate and about 10 days since I was told I probably have it. So I’ve started a YouTube channel.

Keybase - Identity Verification and Encrypted Communications for the Masses

How do you know that that person you need to message on Slack, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. is who they say they are? How do you know who is sending you that file and if you should trust them? How do you guarantee that the message you send is not being intercepted in transit?

By meeting in a dark alley, exchanging information that only you and the other person know, then tatooing their public key on your arm and manually typing it in to a computer that has never touched the internet, and then passing the messages onto this computer, signing (and potentially encrypting) them, and then passing them back to the internet using the IPoAC protocol.

Er, yeah, no. Well, if you have something that is that important, you know you do, and are already doing some variation of the above. If you need to get such messages to or from me, I guess you can check out my Public Key Page and we can arrange something.

For everyone else, there’s Keybase.io - Crypto for everyone!.