[aidos]

I have a keybase account that I used it the other day to have a few secrets sent to me from various sources. I have to say, even as a complete geek, I wasn't that thrilled with the experience.

I have a new machine so I had to go through the setup process. First I had to install node/npm, and then their stuff, and then some other PGP apps. The whole thing felt really clumsy.

I'm a bit of encryption novice, but for what I get, it feels like the openssl tools on my mac should be able to do everything without having to jump through all the hoops.

Then there's the user experience on the other side. I had to send people to the keybase page to get them to generate the message and then email / send that to me. That's annoying and probably verges on terrifying for non-geeks.

Afterwards I thought to myself, why can't I sent up an html / js page with my public key in? It would have a single box called "Send something to me" and it could do the encryption client side and then fire me an email, or stick it in firebase, or whatever.

I know this doesn't solve all of the issues (trust etc) but when I'm just trying to give customers a way of getting me a password or something without them sending it via email it goes a long way and removes a lot of the friction.