Doesn't matter until the key is replaced. The device may never have received these messages, maybe it was switched off, or they've since been removed. Maybe it's next week, or next month, or next year, or in ten years time.
Spooks can record Alice's encrypted message and get it back if they at /any/ subsequent point obtain the Keybase device key for your iPad, iPhone, MBP or Thinkpad, for example as a result of seizing it for some other reason. This way you can read the message from any of your devices. Keybase will ensure Alice provides keys to decrypt that message for your iPad, iPhone, the MBP and your old Thinkpad. Say Alice sends you a normal Keybase message right now about murdering her husband Bob. For _other_ Keybase messages without PFS it's open season. I'm going to assume in good faith that you've simply misread the comment but I'll circle back on this because the technical details are interesting.ġ. So, firstly the comment you're replying to specifically says that Keybase _does_ use PFS for exploding messages. I don't think this was quite bad a move as some make it out to be. (Though there are caveats, but the infrastructure is there natively to build very useful things.) And I'm not even naming the fact that it natively allows you to keep fiat money as a Stellar asset instead of exposing yourself to the risk of losing value to fluctuation. I personally knew Stellar already, but as a technical user (which I feel is a natural demographic for any crypto to start to get early adopters), this brought back Stellar in my mind and renewed my interest (or would've interested me if I hadn't known it).īesides, I quite like Stellar as a cryptocurrency for payments: fees are low, and confirmations are near instant. Compare that to yet another app which I don't know, need to evaluate, don't trust to keep my secrets, or won't share them across my devices. This is probably the least painful way I've kept crypto private keys.īesides, the wallet is pretty functional, and is integrated to an app that's already sync'd to my phone and computer.
Keybase wants to make encryption user-friendly, and keeping cryptocurrency keys secure fits very well to that purpose. Keep them too well, lose your money keep them not well enough, someone can steal your money. Keeping cryptocurrency keys secure has always been a challenge. There's a lot I like in the Stellar-Keybase integration. In the past, precisely in June 2017, Stellar had also carried out another airdrop, with more success, giving over 16 billion XLM to all BTC holders.Seems like a lot of people are saying the airdrop and integrating Stellar to Keybase was a bad idea, but I don't think so.
NOT QUALIFIED FOR KEYBASE AIRDROP REGISTRATION
So, of the total 2 billion XLM planned for this airdrop, only 300 million have been distributed : the last batch of these 300 million will be distributed on December 15th, but already now the registration to the Keybase platform for this airdrop has been closed.Ĭlearly, the question of the remaining 1.7 billion XLM that the foundation of Stellar had made available remains open: it is not yet known how they will be spent, probably in other marketing operations or other airdrops with different partners.
It’s not in the Stellar network’s interest to reward those people it is also not in Keybase’s interest to have them as Keybase users”, explains the official communication released a few hours ago. Why? Starting in the last week or so, hordes of fake people were beginning to come in, far beyond the capacity of Keybase or SDF to filter. “While this giveaway mostly worked, it’s clear that there will be decreasing returns and massively increased effort required. Unfortunately, as recently announced, the airdrop scheduled for December 15th will be the last because the platform has received too many applications, especially from fake accounts, and this has prevented us from understanding who were real users and who were fake. The airdrop had started in October and allowed to earn up to $500 of XLM.
NOT QUALIFIED FOR KEYBASE AIRDROP FOR FREE
The crypto was supposed to be distributed among Keybase users, but too many fake accounts were created just to receive this airdrop for free so the two companies decided to discontinue the distribution. Stellar and Keybase abandon the 2 billion XLM airdrop project.
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