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Keybase

From here.

Keybase is a secure messaging and file-sharing tool.

Install

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# On Ubuntu.
curl --remote-name https://prerelease.keybase.io/keybase_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./keybase_amd64.deb
run_keybase

Create PGP key

  1. Open Ubuntu’s “Password and Keys” tool, create a PGP key there.

  2. Run the following command to get the PGP public key:

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    # List the PGP keys.    
    gpg -K --keyid-format long --with-colons --with-fingerprint
    # Export the public PGP key for "keybase.io".
    # The fpr value(fingerprint value without the colons part).
    # should be used in the following command.
    gpg --export -a B2CA5FBEER5A9B29C9C8ED3A524D4026B4DBA588

Now you can open the “Keybase” client by executing “run_keybase”, and then add the public PGP key into “keybase.io”.

By defaut Keybase starts automatically after Ubuntu boots. To disable it, run the following command(from here:

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keybase ctl autostart --disable

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