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> Doesn't that undermine the whole decentralized web of trust concept? All those services are operated by US companies - or what if someone simply compromised Keybase itself?

Ideally: Nothing. Keybase refers to other sources. I.e. a page on GitHub woth username and key fingerprint. So if keybase is compromises those links miss and it's no prove.




In reality some people stores their private keys there ('encrypted' according to them) so it can be stolen when they're compromised.




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