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.

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