![]() A second dialog would pop up, asking for that. Note: If you choose to push the secret key to the Keybase server, you also need to enter your Keybase password. ( Please use a strong password during the export!) The keybase dialog asking for the password to unlock the secret key of the key pair file. If the Keybase UI is already open, the password dialog box may pop-under, so look out for it. You would have set this during the export. The Keybase UI asks for the password of the private key. If you wish to send the private key to the Keybase servers, add the -push-secret argument. I am using the import command with the -infile (or -i, for short) argument. The h is necessary to distinguish asking for help versus executing the command. ![]() For usage details of the import command, use keybase pgp import h. For example, type keybase pgp and press Enter for information on the pgp command. To learn more about a particular command, type keybase command. You can explore the command line by typing in keybase at the prompt and pressing Enter. Not surprisingly, the command is keybase. Keybase comes with a command-line client. The file must contain both the private and public keys, even if you don’t plan to send your private key to the Keybase servers. For the command line examples below, the file is in the C:\keys directory and has the name keypair.asc. Refer to the link for the official guide.įor the task at hand, I am also going to assume you have exported your key pair in a PGP format, generally a file with the. I am not going to detail how to sign up for Keybase or how to install Keybase on your Windows PC. It is possible to import only the public key, which is all that someone needs to send you encrypted content. ![]() You should carefully consider if you want Keybase to have access to your private key of an existing key pair, but I leave that decision to you. Now, you would like to import that key pair, or the public key only, in Keybase, so you can use it to exchange encrypted messages and files. Say you have a PGP key pair in an app on Windows. To use Keybase with PGP, you can create a new PGP key pair directly inside Keybase, or you can import an existing key pair. PGP uses a public/private key pair to encrypt (as opposed to a symmetric key, which can create a challenge because you need a secure channel to send the symmetric key to the recipient of your message). Keybase can also encrypt and decrypt files using PGP. One key feature is the ability to link your identity on Keybase to your identity on other sites, including Twitter and GitHub. Recently, I’ve started using Keybase, not only because of its ability to provide E2E encrypted messaging but also because of its additional feature set. End-to-end (E2E) encrypted communication is valuable and necessary.
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