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    Update, October 27th, 2022:

TLDR;

I locked myself out of Keybase 🦝

If you get a message from juniperspring on Keybase, don't trust it.

I might make a blog post about Keybase at some point.

Or maybe I just took over this Github account... ;)
Proof of time:

Current Bitcoin block height: 760,576
Block hash: 000000000000000000023ba95f71d7ef637b1510d25e867a2ce1f9786bbe59e4

I lost access to my Keybase account.

I was playing around with the CLI and ran the following two commands:

keybase account lockdown

keybase logout
Apparently those are bad commands to run when you've revoked all other devices and forgot your Keybase password.
I still have keys for one of my devices, but AFAIK they're encrypted with some secret derived from my Keybase password.
Thoughts on Keybase in 2022:


It's cool and demonstrates some creative solutions to hard problems (p hard, not np, but still)
It's useful as a public record
AFAIK, no good read-only clones of the Keybase API data exist

There's plenty of good metadata within Keybase's public history
But I don't want to be dependent on Keybase's servers to access it
Keybase should have third-party equivalents to things like Bitcoin block explorers
The fact that no such clones exist evidences a lack of interest in Keybase imo


It's heavily centralized, at least in that it requires a central server to track changes

They store the Merkle tree (well, "forest") root hash in the Stellar chain
But that root hash is for auditability (fork resistance) rather than data persistence
AFAIK, Keybase's utility decreases massively if their servers go down
It's owned by Zoom now
Zoom bought Keybase to advertise cybersecurity to gullible investors
Zoom's C suite is more interested in Zoom than in maintaining Keybase


The Keybase docs are scattered and full of dead links

This is a good lesson in keeping docs in source control; docs should be foss
Zoom should maintain the Keybase docs but they won't because they don't care


Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am librick on github.
I am juniperspring (https://keybase.io/juniperspring) on keybase.
I have a public key ASDGEIeNecwCT_YxFy6_aLl5xrtvU8qJImDTknXaOklugQo

To claim this, I am signing this object:
{
  "body": {
    "key": {
      "eldest_kid": "01204ebd606d2637c6be99c3329a68465e201b075731a7fae1ce2565388c56726be90a",
      "host": "keybase.io",
      "kid": "0120c610878d79cc024ff631172ebf68b979c6bb6f53ca892260d39275da3a496e810a",
      "uid": "8a86aa096441ceafae16f84849cc4319",
      "username": "juniperspring"
    },
    "merkle_root": {
      "ctime": 1664389266,
      "hash": "f1a16f5198085ab5ed083917d54c585f511821b66f3a63f52f660fbc27c07d3e62d0dd102cc92e6e4a7dd77de3074dc6683a3ac0e6071ea0fc27f9481c59240b",
      "hash_meta": "67bab1590ec821b2d8e0503a0fcc755a482c93310674c0c66de130eefbfe74ec",
      "seqno": 23276182
    },
    "service": {
      "entropy": "hips0F+RHfrxR11xDkuSk5JC",
      "name": "github",
      "username": "librick"
    },
    "type": "web_service_binding",
    "version": 2
  },
  "client": {
    "name": "keybase.io go client",
    "version": "6.0.2"
  },
  "ctime": 1664389280,
  "expire_in": 504576000,
  "prev": "c87edf3e980a344ebc43323ade6b3f8d708f7c7fcf58f72dbc8ed7d222deadb3",
  "seqno": 33,
  "tag": "signature"
}
with the key ASDGEIeNecwCT_YxFy6_aLl5xrtvU8qJImDTknXaOklugQo, yielding the signature:
hKRib2R5hqhkZXRhY2hlZMOpaGFzaF90eXBlCqNrZXnEIwEgxhCHjXnMAk/2MRcuv2i5eca7b1PKiSJg05J12jpJboEKp3BheWxvYWTESpcCIcQgyH7fPpgKNE68QzI63ms/jXCPfH/PWPctvI7X0iLerbPEIDxQZqG8GWTPwoa53DIjJV1V6qb4l5vVgPR1+9+86cLGAgHCo3NpZ8RAnRgjcb7PaTFE7FzJKrM2DM6xYl0wtB/2uyxKIBvjnlPURNj971v5fVnUxvmElVffXyrQvY6d6eCyYfTKY0MmC6hzaWdfdHlwZSCkaGFzaIKkdHlwZQildmFsdWXEIHXsibcRHnYiN983lxvWIRlMPCXBb2KTUItALbO/FFzuo3RhZ80CAqd2ZXJzaW9uAQ==


And finally, I am proving ownership of the github account by posting this as a gist.
My publicly-auditable identity:

https://keybase.io/juniperspring
From the command line:

Consider the keybase command line program.
# look me up
keybase id juniperspring