Identity and Encryption with Keybase Founder Max Krohn
Keybase is an open-source key directory that allows users to encrypt messages and verify identities. - Max Krohn is the co-founder of Keybase, and previously co-founded OKCupid and SparkNotes. - Continue reading…
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September 4, 201550m 48s
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Show Notes
Keybase is an open-source key directory that allows users to encrypt messages and verify identities.
Max Krohn is the co-founder of Keybase, and previously co-founded OKCupid and SparkNotes.
Questions
- How do you explain public key encryption to a non-programmer millennial?
- How does Keybase leverage the Bitcoin blockchain?
- Why is a Merkle tree a crucial data structure in Keybase?
- What are some use cases for Keybase?
- How did OKCupid approach the type of bot problem Ashley Madison encouraged?
- Why is Keybase written in Go?
- How does Keybase run Go code in iOS?
Links
- Keybase
- Public Key Cryptography
- Merkle Signature Scheme
- Keybase Raises $10.8 Million (contains lots of technical/mission information)
- Ashley Madison bots
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