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Comment by rrggrr | Hacker News Reader

Why not simply use PASS with your Keybase gpg key?

Well, I wanted something with structured records. `pass` can sort of do that, but it's not built into it.

I also wanted to take advantage of KBFS to do the encryption transparently and expose records as individual files. KBSecret just provides a structure; you can use plain old shell scripts (and I/O primitives) to access your records once they're in place.

It's more of an experiment than anything else currently, but those are the two big motivating ideas.

Makes sense. Do we know if KBFS is deemed cryptographically secure? I haven't kept up on it.

I don't know if there's been a formal audit, but they've published an overview of their cryptographic methods and practices [1].

They've also open-sourced KBFS itself and the `keybase` client [2][3], but again, not sure on the audit.

[1]: https://keybase.io/docs/crypto/overview

[2]: https://github.com/keybase/kbfs

[3]: https://github.com/keybase/client

I started using pass last week after a post on HN, loving it so far.

Could I have a link to that post please?

it's an old one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12890498

Or even just use Pass as normal, setting the password store directory to a path in your KBFS vfs. Two layers of encryption + standard Pass usage. :D

How do you specify the pass file directory?

The original pass program allows overriding the default directory with the PASSWORD_STORE_DIR environment variable. I use gopass [0] though which supports directly configuring this via cli/config file.

[0]: https://github.com/justwatchcom/gopass

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