Welcome to keybase’s documentation!

What is Keybase? From their website:

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Keybase will be a public directory of publicly auditable public keys. All paired, for convenience, with unique usernames.

It provides an easy way to publish public keys, have them validated against known good sources for users like Twitter, email addresses and even web sites, and make all of this stuff discoverable. It’s trying to take away the mystery of handing keys around so that cryptography can be more widely used by the masses.

The keybase python API allows you to search, download and use the stored keys in the Keybase directory. You can do things like encrypt messages and files for a user or verify a signature on a file from a user. Eventually it will be extended to allow you to administer Keybase user identities and their associated public/private keypairs via the KeybaseAdmin class.

If you’re not familiar with public/private key encryption check out this tutorial or Laurent Luce’s excellent article Python and cryptography with pycrypto.

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