

You can safely use Keybase's encryption for backups and similar purposes. The process of adding a device includes a step to ensure this works. They are not backed up to iCloud or Google.Īnd yet, here's the magic: when you encrypt a file in the Keybase app, it will be available for your-or recipients'- future devices too. Your work computer, your home computer, and your phone all have their own keys, which never leave them. Each of your installs gets its own private device key. With Keybase, you simply bring 2 devices together to provision the new one.

How high, we asked, must we pin the goat entrails.

How do we summon the private key from one device to another? Or shall we make a new key and somehow sign it? How many bits in this new key, we wondered. Recall getting a new computer in the olden PGP days.
