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Re: keybase.io



On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 04:33:18PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
> Well, this "thing" raises several red flags just by reading "upload ...
> private key". This alone smells very wrong, because I'm the opinion a
> private key must never leave my (trusted) system) 

More than that, it's good practice to never let the private half leave
an offline machine, and use that offline high-entropy machine issue
signing subkeys which you can take with you on your other machines.

I'm not doing this, but it's good practice (and I should start once I
can be bothered to generate new keys)

Cheers,
  Paul

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