Keybase: End-to-end encrypted chat from Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, HackerNews, or Github user
Keybase is an official multi-platform utilities for composing ENCRYPTED messages to any Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, HackerNews, or Github user, from the convenience of your browser. It’s an easier chat, and it’s end-to-end encrypted.
This works even if they have yet to join Keybase. The quick summary:
– everyone with a social network account has a Keybase inbox, *even before they join Keybase*
– you don’t need to know the recipient’s email address or phone number or Keybase username—just a social media username is sufficient
– no one (at Keybase or the social networks) can read your private exchanges
– multi-device: your messages survive and transfer with encryption to new phones & computers
At no point in Keybase’s protocol does Keybase ever have the keys necessary to read your messages. This is end-to-end encryption, powered by the convenience of public social media usernames.
Keybase is open source, and so is this extension: https://github.com/keybase/client
